Live Traffic for VATSIM Clients

This program brings the real world into VRC and any other server-configurable clients for VATSIM. It offers data pulled from FlightRadar24 and ADSBExchange, flightplans from FlightAware, and metars from the NOAA.

Preview

Installing

1. Download the latest release and unzip to a directory of your choice.
2. Install Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable.
3. Configure values to your liking as described in Configuration.
4. For VRC: Open or create myservers.txt in Documents/VRC. Add the following entry:

   127.0.0.1 LIVE TRAFFIC
   

   For Euroscope: Open or create myipaddr.txt in Documents/EuroScope. Add the following entry:

   127.0.0.1 LIVE-TRAFFIC
   

5. Start livetraffic.exe
6. Connect using the new server in VRC/Euroscope.
7. Optional: Listen to LiveATC

Notes

• Flightplans from FlightAware are disabled by default to avoid users from getting IP banned. Please use a range of no more than 100nm if you plan on turning this feature on. See Configuration for how to enable it.
• Flightplans from FlightAware will only be pulled for airline flights with a callsign starting with three letters followed by numbers in order to limit requests.
• Sometimes ADSBExchange data will go beyond the range you defined in the config file. In this case, departure/arrival data from FlightRadar24 will not be reflected in those aircraft.

Configuration

config.json is read by the program and can be configured as follows:

{
    "airport": "KBOS",          - The airport to view aircraft at
    "delay": 0,                 - How much time to buffer before displaying aircraft, useful for syncing with LiveATC
    "range": 30,                - How far away from the airport (in miles) aircraft should be shown
    "floor": 0,                 - Aircraft below this altitude (in feet) will not be processed
    "ceiling": 99999,           - Aircraft above this altitude will not be processed
    "use_flightaware": false    - Whether to pull flight plans from flightaware. You can disable this if you experience IP limits.
}