ACARS Message From: N369NW / NW1840
Message: DO WE HAVE AN OFFICIAL CHANNEL TO REPRT UNUSUAL SIGHTINGS THAT YOU KNOW OF OR JUST ATC.
Area: Gaithersburg, MD, USA
vdlm2
My previous intro post was a few years old, so behold, new intro post:
Mike. Live in the Seattle area having grown up in the UK as a full blown British. Have a wife (incredible), child (boy), and three dogs (golden retriver/cream retriver/fuck knows).
I work in information security, something I have done for about 20 years. By day I run corporate security, enterprise IT and various other bits and pieces for an EV charging startup. I am big into EV's and currently drive one that is not a Tesla. I want an electric motorbike, so if anyone has a spare one please send it.
I also have a company of my own, Secure Being (https://securebeing.com), which does pen testing and digital forensic work - it's my way of staying super hands on while still doing the management bits on the career path.
I have written books about information security things. Five of them. Two are non-fiction textbooks, and three are fiction based on real world #infosec things. Check out https://infosecdiaries.com and your local bookstore to find them, just search for my name. I have been trying to write more stuff, but always seem to find myself distracted by other things, such as work. linktr.ee/secureowl has some mini stories I've written.
I love radio and everything RF. I have lots of antennas and various scanners and radios on my desk. I love intercepting and decoding things, like digital radio protocols.
I am a big aviation nerd. I always wanted to be a commercial pilot. I gained my private pilots license in the UK at 17, all self funded by my employment at the local Safeway/Morrisons store. I did the sim test and commercial assessments, but for some reason, at 18, I was unable to find the £100k needed to complete the commercial training, so I did computers. But do not worry, because those computers and love of aviation and radio/RF combined, and I run a project called ACARS Drama. https://acarsdrama.com has all the details.
I play guitar and am a big guitar/audio nerd as well. I record music under the moniker Operation: Anxiety, https://operationanxiety.com - the music is on all the normal places.
Finally, I am a massive fan of motorsport. I believe I have watched every F1 race for the last 30 years, maybe 25. I also follow F2, FE, Indycar and MotoGP closely. I average around 18 hours of Le Mans 24 hour racing watching per year.
So there you have it. If you are looking for a thought leader on the topics mentioned above, you've come to the wrong place - because this is where I shitpost, and shitposting is cheap therapy.
#infosec #dfir #pentesting #acars #vdlm2 #sdr #rf #f1 #seattle #introduction
Happy Saturday Drama Fans!
This week, thanks to our wonderful army of sky drama farmers, we've added coverage in:
Charlotte, NC, USA
Southampton, UK
If you'd like to join the fastest growing community of airborne soilage enthusiasts on the planet, check out https://acarsdrama.com to learn more!
Air to Ground Message:
PAX BROUGHT CHICKEN ON AIRCRAFT AND REFUSED TO GET OFF HAD TO CALL POLICE TO ESCORT PAX AND CHICKEN OFF OF AIRCRAFT CLUCK CLUCK
Area: Lansing, IL, USA
#avgeeks! A reminder that thru Friday 24th, you can get a free month of ACARS Drama Jumpseat access, just use promo code REDCOAT at checkout when you sign up.
What is it? It's a premium program that directly supports our project, and gives you access to a lot more data and features, such as..
Real time insights based on the full ACARS Drama Dataset.
Ability to subscribe to daily or weekly insights digests.
A powerful search engine that allows you to search over 1.1 million messages, published and unpublished in our archive.
Created Saved Searches and turn searches into email alerts, so you get notified about topics/areas you want to learn more about.
Station stats and live activity maps.
A REST API to build your own projects/dashboards/homelab experiments!
AND MOAR!
Sign up now at https://jumpseat.acarsdrama.com
Happy Sunday Drama Fans!
Guess what!? We are now 1 new drama feed away from 300 total feeds, a true milestone in the world of sky drama collection!
This week, thanks to our wonderful army of sky drama farmers, we added extra coverage in the following areas:
Tampa, FL, USA
Marbella, Spain
Berlin, Germany
Jersey Shore, NJ, USA
If you'd like to become a sky drama farmer, using open source software and cheap radio hardware to suck the human induced chaos from skies above, check out https://acarsdrama.com for information on how to become part of this elite crew - and maybe, just maybe, you'll be the 300th?
Happy Saturday Drama Fans!
Thanks to our army of sky drama farmers, we've recently increased our coverage in:
St. Louis, MO, USA
West Midlands, UK
New Plymouth, New Zealand
Charlotte, NC, USA
If you'd like to contribute to the internets fastest growing sink is clogged tracker, check out https://acarsdrama.com for all the info.
Happy New Year Drama Fans!
This week, thanks to our wonderful army of volunteer sky drama farmers, we've added coverage in the following areas:
Nashville, TN, USA
Davis, CA, USA
If you have a spare SDR hanging around and would like to contribute to the worlds fastest growing source of breaking dog poop news, check out https://acarsdrama.com.
The website also includes links to our sub-feeds and RSS options, for you to enjoy the drama in more manageable ways, if the main feed is too noisy for your liking, but you don't want the FOMO associated with not knowing when an intoxicated passenger soils seat 7A.
All the mastodon sub-feeds are up and running, so if you don't see any posts on the profile - be sure to follow them so federation can happen!
Happy Saturday Drama Fans!
This week, thanks to our wonderful army of volunteer Sky Drama farmers, we have increased our who was caught vaping coverage to new skies!
Our new feeders provide us drama coverage in:
San Rafael, CA, USA
Hanover, Germany
Caernarfon, Wales, UK
If you enjoy ACARS Drama, and want to help us feed the drama machine, check out https://acarsdrama.com for information on how it all works.
The site also contains details on Mastodon Sub-Feeds, RSS, and other ways to enjoy the project.
Thanks to everyone who follows, enjoys, and keeps us fed.
Happy Saturday Drama Fans!
Couple of new feeds to tell you about this week, supplied by our volunteer sky drama farmers harvesting high altitude occurrences:
Melbourne, Australia
Peterborough, UK
If you'd like to add to the 300+ feeds we have providing global sky drama coverage, check out https://acarsdrama.com to learn more!
Thank you and have a good week!
It's Saturday Drama Fans! So time for our traditional weekly update regarding the leading provider of VHF-to-shitpost services.
This week, thanks to our sky drama farmers, we've added additional coverage in:
Dayton, OH, USA
Whitefield, NH, USA
Tokyo, Japan
Our first feed in Japan! Yay!
If you would like to become a sky drama farmer, it's easy with low cost hardware and open source software. Check out acarsdrama.com for more info.
Thanks to everyone who contributes to, and enjoys, our little project, stay safe and warm!
Happy Saturday Drama Fans!
This week, ACARS Drama, the leading provider of aircraft based shenanigan dissemination over TCP/IP, increased sky coverage in the following areas:
Charlotte, NC, USA
Copenhagen, Denmark
Tampa, FL, USA
We wouldn't be able to bring you the occurrences without our wonderful team of sky drama farmers, who use open source software and cheap hardware to harvest the drama above. Thank you sky drama farmers!
Interested in what is going on above your own head? Check out https://acarsdrama.com for info on how you can feed the drama machine.
It's Saturday Drama Fans!!
Couple of new feeds this week to tell you about:
Teterboro, NJ, USA = our 300th feed (yay!)
Wolverhampton, UK
Thanks to all sky drama farmers, check out https://acarsdrama.com if you'd like to be one and contribute to our drama harvest!
It's Saturday Sky Drama Fans!
This week, has been a heck of a week in terms of sky drama coverage enhancements.
We have new feeds in the following areas:
Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Wolverhampton, UK
Canterbury, UK
Copenhagen, Denmark
Crawley, UK
Raleigh, NC, USA
Taiwan
Valparaiso, IN, USA
Atlanta, GA, USA
Turin, Italy
THANK YOU TO ALL THE NEW AND LONG TERM SKY DRAMA FARMERS
If you'd like to contribute to ACARS Drama, you need cheap radio hardware and open source software.
Check out https://acarsdrama.com for info on how you can harvest the sky happenings above you.
Happy Saturday Drama Consumers!
This week, thanks to our army of Sky Drama Farmers, we added coverage in:
Taiwan
Tokyo, Japan
Norwood, MA, USA
Lisbon, Portugal
If you're interested in contributing to the fastest growing community of WIFI INOP OK TO RESET? fans on the planet, check out https://acarsdrama.com for more info.
Happy Saturday Drama Connoisseurs of the highest order!
This week, thanks to our army of farm to table sky drama farmers, we've added coverage in:
Putnam County, OH, USA
Norwich, UK
Monclova, Mexico
Huddersfield, UK
Atlanta, GA, USA
Riga, Latvia
The addition of Mexico and Latvia brings our country total to 30, across 326 feeds.
If you'd like to become a sky drama farmer and help feed the masses their daily dose of gossip, check out https://acarsdrama.com for info.
Thank you all and I hope you have a wonderful week full of happiness and an operative APU.
Edited 177d ago
Very exciting news, Drama Fans!!
We’ve built one of our most requested features—with help from airline and avionics partners.
Introducing HEYcars Drama: the first fediverse-to-ACARS bridge.
You can now reply in real time to ACARS Drama posts and have your message sent directly to the flight deck via our global SDR network and ACARS partners.
How it works:
Reply to a post starting with “HEY:” (ALL CAPS encouraged for vibe alignment). Your message is routed to the cockpit via the FMC. If workload allows, the crew might even respond.
Learn more: https://acarsdrama.com/#heycars
Be nice to the pilots!
New (Quieter) Sub Feeds!
If you're a fan of @acarsdrama - but want to follow a less noisy version of our feed, we're please to announce nine new sub feeds that allow you to follow based on your own personal drama interests!
@emergencies_failures - tracks broken things, system failures, and emergencies
@medical - tracks medical events
@excreta - if it is launched from the human body, you'll find it here
@badpax - often the worst part of flying is the people you are sat next too
@wtf - things that make you ask WTF?!
@animals - our four legged friends are not immune from drama
@wx - weather related happenings and diversions
@ride_reports - bumpiness ratings
@crewing_ops - related to the operational side of aviation
And of course we still have @top_shelf and @trending
We hope that these feeds provide another option for your daily drama ingestion!
Happy Saturday Drama Fans!
This week, thanks to our wonderful array of Sky Drama Farmers, operating their wonderful array of Software Defined Radios, we added coverage in:
Trenton, NJ, USA
Jacksonville, FL, USA
Düsseldorf, Germany
Valparaiso, IN, USA
The drama machine is hungry, and wants to know what is going on in your skies. Interested in joining the harvest? Check out https://acarsdrama.com for info.
Thank you and happy drama'ing.
Happy Saturday Drama Fans!
This week, thanks to our most awesome army of sky drama farmers, we've added coverage in:
Brussels, Belgium
Taiwan
Danielson, CT, USA
and, what is perhaps our favorite place name we didn't know existed until it popped up:
Liberal, KS, USA
Anywho, if you'd like to help feed the drama machine and harvest AFT LAV happenings for all humankind, check out https://acarsdrama.com for info on how you can achieve the prestigious rank of SKY DRAMA FARMER using cheap hardware and open source software.
Happy Saturday ACARS Fans!
This week, thanks to our wonderful army of Sky Drama Farmers, we added extra coverage in:
Gwangju, South Korea
Thanks to everyone who feeds us!
Interested in sky farming? check out: https://acarsdrama.com#feed for more info on this noble profession.
❤️ ACARS Drama & want to help keep the project running? The best way to support us is to become a Jumpseat member
Sign up @ https://jumpseat.acarsdrama.com
As a thanks for your support, you get:
Access to 90% more messages than get posted
Tail & Flight # lookups
Flight Playback
REST API Access
ACARS Insights
MOAR
As always, thanks for your support. The next time you are on a flight remember the goal of this project is to show you the heroic, unseen work that goes into every flight.
Be nice to your flight attendants and crews, because you never know when they'll be stepping up to help you on your worst day.
Happy Saturday Drama Fans - it's time for our weekly ACARS Drama update!
This week, thanks to our wonderful sky drama farmers, we added coverage in the following areas:
Popham, UK
Dublin, Ireland
Madrid, Spain
Bristol, UK
Burbank, CA, USA
South Nashville, TN, USA
Thanks to all who partake in the sky-harvest!
Additionally, there were some major architectural changes behind the scenes this week to how ACARS Drama runs, to ensure it can keep on top of all the data we now receive thanks to all you wonderful people.
These changes are completely transparent to the feed, but still, they are pretty cool and a testament to how this project has grown.
For more info, check out https://acarsdrama.com to learn about the project, how you can feed, and other ways you can support our growth!
Happy Saturday Drama Fans, and a special happy 4th to all who celebrate!
This week, thanks to our wonderful army of Sky Drama Farmers, we've added coverage in:
Raleigh, NC, USA
Louisville, KY, USA
Crawley, UK
AND NEW COUNTRY ALERT: Liberec, Czechia
https://acarsdrama.com#feed = learn about sky farming!
Sky Drama Farmers, as a thanks for their feeds, get free access to Jumpseat, which allows them to dive into all the data behind the scenes.
https://jumpseat.acarsdrama.com
Becoming a Jumpseat member is a great way to show some ❤️ to ACARS Drama - and get access to 1.1 million messages in our archive!
Thanks to everyone who supports, enjoys, or is working hard on a plane, at an airport, in a control tower - to keep folks moving, especially if you are doing so over a holiday weekend!
Stay safe, have fun. Don't blow off your fingers - you need them for ACARS'ing!
Go even deeper, with Jumpseat:
Search over a million messages (including unpublished)
REST API Access
Activity map
Email Alerts
ACARS Insights
Daily/Weekly Digests
Flight Playback and Aircraft Lookup
All while supporting the project!!