flight-stream

flight-stream

This is a readable stream in objectMode that will provide flight information near your area matching certain conditions. By default it looks for A380s near Heathrow airport.

Usage

The library exposes only a readable stream that you may use however you like. The helper file irc.js uses it to pipe the information to an IRC channel via irc-stream.

Here is a simple way to just dump all matching planes spotted to console:

var config = {
  location: {
    latitude: 51.5083818,
    longitude: -0.5596166
  },
  maxDistance: 5*1000
};
var PlaneStream = require('plane-stream');
new PlaneStream(config).on('data', function (plane) {
  console.log("%j", plane);
});

Configuration

For the config object, the only thing you need to set is your location. But additionally you can set:

• aircraft if want to filter by a single aircraft using ICAO codes
• maxDistance the size of the bounding box to search for planes in meters
• maxAltitude of a plane in feet
• clockShift if you would not want to use relative north for direction output
• throttleInterval in seconds if you feel you get too many updates

License

MIT-Licensed. See LICENSE file for details.