ADS-B

vsTASKER is offering an ADS-B support by importing and managing data from several ADS-B sources.

For now, the supported server formats are from Open-Networks and Aviation-Edge, although we may support more feeders in future versions.

ADS-B import is based on data extracted from Internet and stored into a directory. vsTASKER is using a proprietary feeder called NetReaderApp which is automatically started and configured by the ADSbReader component (see Development Guide).

Once the NetReaderApp is running, it stores all current flights from a given region into /Data/ADS-B/<output> folder. Files will be named output_index.log, index starting from 1 and incremented each time. All these files will make the ADS-B database for online/real-time or replay scenarios.

Whatever the server selected, the output format will be the same and will match the data expecting at most by ADSbData Data-Model.

vsTASKER can run in sync with NetReaderApp, loading files as soon as ready and processing them when necessary. In this mode, vsTASKER can only run real-time.

If the data (files) are already available (from a previous real-time run), it is possible to run vsTASKER in offline mode, based on the stored data, at a higher speed.

In db/RNAV, some samples are provided to help you setting up your first ADS-B scenarios. See also the Tutorial document for a step by step approach.