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Piaware Flight Data Reader

Martin O'Hanlon (martin@ohanlonweb.com)

http://www.stuffaboutcode.com

Description

A python 3 module to read flight data from the PiAware solution.

http://www.stuffaboutcode.com/2015/09/read-piaware-flight-data-with-python.html

Structure

• flightdata.py - the flightdata python module

Usage

from flightdata import FlightData
from time import sleep

myflights = FlightData()
while True:
	#loop through each aircraft found
	for aircraft in myflights.aircraft:

		#read the aircraft data
		print(aircraft.hex)
		print(aircraft.squawk)
		print(aircraft.flight)
		print(aircraft.lat)
		print(aircraft.lon)
		print(aircraft.validposition)
		print(aircraft.altitude)
		print(aircraft.vert_rate)
		print(aircraft.track)
		print(aircraft.validtrack)
		print(aircraft.speed)
		print(aircraft.messages)
		print(aircraft.seen)
		print(aircraft.mlat)

sleep(1)

#refresh the flight data
myflights.refresh()

Version history

• 0.1 - Initial stable version