agreen's fboweb.com development blog

Behold; Autolog! The Automatic Pilot's Logbook!

2007-02-08T13:06:00Z

Ok, it was a long time in coming - it was actually discussed and talked about for years, but after going through the patent work and tweaking things on various levels, we've finally put the AutoLogger online

Check out the details by clicking here!

Finally we can concentrate on flying the plane and not so much on logging what we did in it :)

Andy

More goodies with Google Earth!

2006-07-15T14:21:00Z

This week we're putting the finishing touches on some new Google Earth enhancements.

Google Earth, in case you didn't know, is a 3D model of the earth, complete with sattelite imagery, that you can scroll around, rotate, zoom in and zoom out of. Combine that with the ability for third parties to add in their own data on TOP of that model, and "voila!"... instant data access interface!

fboweb.com was the first flight tracker to integrate its tracking data with Google Earth, and we continue to innovate with this amazing tool.

To check out a demo of what's discussed here, you can click to this link for starters... but many of the features of fboweb.com are already integrated with this program.

What we're getting ready to push to the live servers this week are the ability to view NEXRAD radar images overlaid on top of the planet (for US and surrounding areas only), and the ability to view a flights complete "planned route".

The "display routes" function is still a bit shakey, so we're going to continue to work on it. There's a lot of variation in the format of the routing, so it takes a bit of work to make it manage every instance. Whoever came up with that whole process certainly was a twit.

As usual, stay tuned for additional news :-)

New changes made to FleetWatch through Google Earth

2006-06-29T13:21:00Z

Last night we pushed some new changes to the servers... some of it we can't quite talk about yet :-) However, some of the more useful features are the improvements to the FleetWatch tracking through Google Earth.

Google Earth is an amazing situational awareness tool when it comes to tracking fleets of aircraft. If you've never played with it, you should download it immediately...! In short, it's a three dimensional view of the earth linked to Google's search database. In addition to that, third parties can plug in all sorts of useful add-ons, not the least of which are fboweb.com's own Flight Tracking services.

The thumbnail image here illustrates some of the new changes and improvements to the FleetWatch tracking through Google Earth. For one, the fleet names are now more clearly indicated in the left-hand-side of the Google Earth application; this helps users who are tracking more than one fleet at a time identify which fleet is which. Secondly, in the "description" section of each fleet (in that same column) there's a link that users can click on which will open up a "browser" panel right in Google Earth and display a detailed text listing of each aircraft in the fleet list, along with particular details of each flight - ie, altitude, origin and destination airports, aircraft owner, current controlling center, etc.

In short, if you haven't played around with Google Earth and fboweb.com, you should definitely go give it a shot now. There's even a Google Earth Primer that shows some examples of what the system is capable of when used in conjunction with fboweb.com.

As always, feel free to post a message here in the Forums if you have any questions, or for a more direct answer, feel free to contact us through the customer support page...!

Financial Times of London plugs fboweb.com

2006-06-21T16:43:00Z

You never know where we'll pop up; fboweb.com gets plugged in part of an article of London's Financial Times that talks about various Google Mashups. Check it out here.

"For everything there is a first time..."

2006-06-16T23:49:00Z

Ok, this is my first blog entry on the new system. Would this be the blogger's equivalent of "Hello World"?