ACARS Drama

This small companion website is designed to provide a brief overview of the ACARS Drama project, along with some code snippets and other information regarding the project, and how you can contribute. A project to map out every broken coffee maker in the sky A question I’ve been asked a few times since I took a little project I had for a year or so operating privately under my desk, and turned it into a social media bot. Note: this post is designed as a more high-level overview of what ACARS/VDLM2 messages are, and what my bot they feed is. So, if you’re looking for a more detailed technical overview of how the bot works, check out this earlier post from when it was first created as a Slack app. When an aircraft is flying overhead, various radio signals are being transmitted and received by said aircraft constantly. Some examples of the radio signals, of course, are voice communications between pilots and air traffic controllers, that most people are familiar with. These are, of cou ... Read full article.