Looks like you can "feed the drama" by sending unauthenticated JSON messages to an endpoint that the site specifies?<p>Fortunately, nobody on the internet has the urge to break things just for the hell of it, so I'm sure everything will be fine.
Interesting that the keyboard for these[0] is not a QWERTY keyboard but instead has the buttons arranged alphabetically. That must be a pain in the ass to type in. Is that because the tech is 50 years old from before QWERTY was the standard? Do newer planes have QWERTY?<p>0: <a href="https://acarsdrama.com/fmc.webp" rel="nofollow">https://acarsdrama.com/fmc.webp</a><p>Unrelated, this one is cute: <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@acarsdrama/114194436695883209" rel="nofollow">https://infosec.exchange/@acarsdrama/114194436695883209</a>
Very cool. I love these feeds.<p>A very common flow for me when I see something weird on adsb or fr24 is to grab the ICAO address of the plane and search it on <a href="https://app.airframes.io/" rel="nofollow">https://app.airframes.io/</a> to see if it was sending out any ACARS messages so I can... see what the drama was ha!<p>It's a really fun hobby if you find this stuff interesting. You can pick up an SDR online for like $30 USD and be able to do all this without Internet, above your own home.
Message: NO PROBLEM....DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY DELTA PILOTS IT TAKES TO TAXI A PLANE AND NOT RUN INTO ANYTHING...<p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@acarsdrama/114160399911092776" rel="nofollow">https://infosec.exchange/@acarsdrama/114160399911092776</a>
I knew watching every mentour pilot and blancolirio video would serve me well. I haven't yet heroically landed a plane after the pilots both had heart attacks, but at least I can read most of these.
!!!<p>Message: DISPMORNING. NEED LEO TO MEET THE AC. A PAX WAS INAPPROPRIATELY TOUCHING ANOTHER PAX IN THE ROW INFRONT OF THEM. THE FAS HAVE THE SEAT NUMBER ANDMANIFEST. FYI AND THX<p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@acarsdrama/114195325338601167" rel="nofollow">https://infosec.exchange/@acarsdrama/114195325338601167</a><p>[edit: Ahh, its a Frontier flight]
<a href="https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/keyword/N387FR" rel="nofollow">https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/keyword/N387FR</a>
Related: Does anyone have the full message from Korean Air Flight 085 that contained letters HJK?<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_085" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_085</a>
There's something a bit off about this:<p>- I know what ACARS, is and understood <i>less</i> of what's going on here after reading the "What is ACARS drama?"<p>- It's an uncomfortable mirror, a reminder that not everything has to become puerile entertainment. I wouldn't call anything I read in the messages "drama"<p>- The odd obsession over framing it as "drama" & humorous, to the point it is difficult to understand the "what is this?", and collaborators are invited to "Feed the drama"<p>- Open endpoint for anyone to contribute "drama", meaning, anyone can feed anything they want, into this very official-looking feed, without any sourcing / clarification / anything<p>I see how this can read quickly as negativity unfairly directed at creative spirit, the motive power behind man.<p>What tipped me over into "well, it's worth expressing the ick" is that a full 20% of the comments, 14/64, are communicating, speculating, then riffing on, a passenger being molested.
What's the legality of this? I was thinking of doing something similar but with POCSAG but from what I can tell it would be illegal because of ECPA(Electronic Communications Privacy Act)
Message: HELLO..WIFI DOES NOT SEEM TO BE WORKING. ANY PROCEDURES TO RESET. THX<p>Message: LOOKS LIKE WORKING NOW. WE TURNED OFF THEN ON FROM FLT DECK THX<p>Different industries, same procedures :-D<p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@acarsdrama/114189077174169462" rel="nofollow">https://infosec.exchange/@acarsdrama/114189077174169462</a>
Also interesting to see, is a map of all ADS-B emergency broadcasts, which can be: ['general', 'nordo', 'downed', 'lifeguard', 'reserved', 'unlawful', 'minfuel']: <a href="https://adsb.exposed/?zoom=5&lat=38.3590&lng=-97.5146&query=cd7afa0ab72c67d093a9bcdb32c7adc9" rel="nofollow">https://adsb.exposed/?zoom=5&lat=38.3590&lng=-97.5146&query=...</a>
Is it true, I have heard, that ACARS messages are like as expensive as sending data to Hubble, and airlines hate how expensive it is (hence it is not a viable method of transmitting more volumes of more desired data, like position data, regularly etc.) but have no great alternative that they can develop to replace it?