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Provides an improved webinterface for use with ADS-B decoders readsb / dump1090-fa
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Show position of sounds of planes #97

Closed jidanni closed 3 years ago

jidanni commented 3 years ago

An interesting idea would be, instead of showing the positions of looking at planes, instead shown the position of hearing of planes.

Let's say it's cloudy outside. Well a plane starts going over our head. Looking at the map the plane (10 km. high) has crossed us 30 seconds earlier. If the map was sound-based Then it would be exactly on time. So all that needs to be done is the calculate the speed of sound and the distance of the plane to the ground. All that is pretty much constant. Of course such a mode would be only useful to people who live very close to airways.

jidanni commented 3 years ago

Indeed the airplane icons would be replaced by narrow triangles, representing the line on the ground where the sound is first hitting at that moment. Just like the wake of a speedboat on a quiet lake.