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Military Only

Open kevinGZ opened this issue 7 years ago • 5 comments

Can you add Military only Tweet =)

kevinGZ avatar Oct 26 '17 20:10 kevinGZ

That would be cool... any idea how to tell if the airplane is military? I've seen that ADSB Exchange can tell if it's civilian/military. If there is an easy way to tell, I could immediately put in a special hashtag indicating it's military.

Assuming it's easy to tell, if you really want just military only, then it would be pretty straightforward code change to filter them out.

For my setup I tweet anything that is one mile away or closer or higher than 50 degrees from the horizon. I would want to keep that the same, but make exceptions for military aircraft, tweeting any that are within 10 miles or 20 degrees from the horizon.

kevinabrandon avatar Oct 26 '17 21:10 kevinabrandon

Hi Kevinabrandon look please this dump1090 version ... https://github.com/Mictronics/dump1090

docs/screenshots there ... this dump1090 can civ and mil

lordkane avatar Oct 27 '17 15:10 lordkane

If you could discriminate by ICAO hex somehow, most all US military aircraft are AD**** or AE****

ktul584 avatar Nov 18 '17 17:11 ktul584

That seems pretty easy, how reliable is that?

kevinabrandon avatar Nov 18 '17 19:11 kevinabrandon

I'd say 95% or better. The only things I can think of that don't fit are the odd ball unmarked SOCOM planes (UV-18s, CN-235s, etc) and occasionally an E-6B will go up with an alias hex (something like 249249)

ktul584 avatar Nov 18 '17 19:11 ktul584