Virtual Plane Spotting Livestream by Piping ADS-B Data into Flight Simulator

Over on YouTube we've recently discovered a live stream by channel Information Zulu that has created a virtual live 24hr view of LAX airport air traffic by piping ADS-B data into a flight simulator game. The stream also combines this with live air traffic audio and arrivals and departures information. Other videos on his channel show highlights like go arounds.

We're not sure what he's using to pipe ADS-B data into the simulator or exactly what simulator this is, but in the video description he notes that he uses a Pi 4, RTL-SDR blog V3 with ADS-B LNA, and an AirNav antenna to receive the ADS-B data. 

This reminds us of the Android ADSB Flight Tracker app which also has a 3D view, and the post about using ADS-B data to simulate what aircraft instruments would show on the real aircraft.

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Khaos
#183627

Reading thru his YouTube channel it appears he’s using VirtualRadarServer with FSX and data is piped in using FSUIPC. We’ve used that setup at work to go thru flight test data in the past. Lockheed has a flight sim, Prepar3d, that can do the same thing for more $$.

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Sam
#183387

That’s awesome. I wonder if it’s Flight Simulator X?

https://bit.ly/304kZII

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