<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000">Hi, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000">I fly a lot, I wish I could avoid it but I have bills to pay...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000">Some airlines provide on-board internet access, there is a small amount of data you can move for free. I was thinking in a mechanism to obtain my GPS location from the aircraft mode-S transponder broadcast and then upload my posits to APRS-IS</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000">Too complex (it seems)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000">Looking at <a href="http://aprs.fi">aprs.fi</a> today, I saw a person doing something similar over Canberra and Sydney, but only at low flight levels:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000"><a href="https://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=7&call=w%2F8750050954&timerange=86400&tail=86400">https://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=7&call=w%2F8750050954&timerange=86400&tail=86400</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000">Is there someone here with experience with airliners? I have seen people beaconing from private and recreational, but never from big birds. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000">73, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000">Carlos VK1EA</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000000"> <br></div></div>