r/ADSB Jul 12 '26

Upcoming changes to the subreddit rules regarding AI-assisted software projects

49 Upvotes

As many of us have noticed, there are a lot of AI-assisted software projects being posted here. This is an issue faced by other subreddits focusing on tech hobbies, and some of them have implemented rules that I think will be helpful here.

The goals:

  • Control the recent influx of questionable "I made X, because Y" type posts, the vast majority of which are created entirely with AI, have no significant development history, and are generally not maintained afterwards
  • Establish a clear stance on and rule set for how r/ADSB has decided to handle these types of posts, as well as other user-created software
  • See how these changes impact the community, seek additional feedback, and continue to adjust accordingly

New Flairs:

  • Project Showcase: Software - Little or No AI Assistance - [AI only used as coding assistant (autocomplete, debugging, refactoring, documentation, etc), if at all]
  • Project Showcase: Software - Mostly AI Generated - [AI generated most or all of the code, working at a human's direction]

Both "Project: Software" flairs have a reasonably low minimum subreddit karma requirement to be able to post with them. AutoMod will remove any post with them that don't meet the karma requirement, and inform the user why their post was removed. The minimum karma requirement is only for these two flairs. Any software project posts that try to go around this by using a different flair will fall under the new rule #6 and will be addressed.

Rule changes:

New Rules

New Rule #6 - Software Project Posting Requirements

  • All software projects must be relevant to r/ADSB, use a "Project: Software" flair, disclose AI usage with post flair and in the text of the post, include responses to the prompt displayed when posting with one of the software project flairs, and the user must meet the minimum subreddit karma requirement. Posts that do not meet these requirements, try to bypass the "Project: Software" flairs, provide incomplete or misleading disclosures, or otherwise violate community standards may be removed.

That said, since we're now officially allowing some degree of self-promotion and requiring links, we felt that we should redefine rule #5 to clarify that it applies only to monetized and commercial advertising/links. Here is the updated verbiage, with the old one below for comparison:

New Rule #5 - No Commercial Advertising or Monetized Referral Links

  • Monetized referral links, affiliate links, product advertising, and company advertising are not allowed. Contact the moderators via Mod Mail before posting if you believe an exception applies. Non-commercial personal projects are permitted, but must follow all other sub rules.

New Rule #7 - Posts and comments which discuss circumventing a service's ToS are not allowed

  • Please review any rules on data access from the ADS-B aggregators used in your project. It is a Certified Jerk Move™️to scrape data from community-run websites when they disallow it.

Flair Prompt - As mentioned in Rule #6, when posting with any of the "Project: Software" flairs, the below prompt will be displayed:

Your post MUST include:

  • A link to the GitHub (or similar) repository, which must include at least one month of commit history and screenshots
  • A description of the problem the software project solves, and why it was created instead of using an existing FOSS solution
  • An explanation of how the software project is relevant to r/ADSB, or how it may benefit members of the community
  • If you used AI or an LLM in development, a description of what role it played and how much you relied on it

If you see any posts with a Project: Software flair that do not meet the four items listed above, please report them to the mod team under Rule #7 and we'll address them.

Additional things to note:

Existing posts will be grandfathered in, and previous posts that were removed may be reposted if they meet the new requirements. New posts will be required to comply with the new rules.

As with the existing rules, when a mod removes a post for violating this new rule, a canned response will be sent to the user to inform them why their post was removed. Mods are able to add on to the response if desired before sending it.

While we're on the topic of AI, we would also like to clarify that the above rules are specific to the use of AI in software projects that are being shared, and they do not apply to posts or comments that were written with AI. There is some dissent in the community, but the general consensus in the community has been that a reasonable level of AI usage is acceptable for putting a post together, correcting grammar or formatting, or for translating from a user's native language. That said, best practice is to not include all of the excess emoticons and outline formatting that LLMs like to use. If a post or comment is egregiously AI generated, feel free to downvote it and move on, but please do not report it to the mod team solely for that.

We're looking for community feedback as we all get used to this. We plan to apply rules conservatively and gently at first, and will be listening to user reports and comments. If your post is removed and you believe it meets the requirements, please chat with us via Mod Mail and we may consider either re-opening it or letting you repost it.

TL;DR - All posts where someone has made some sort of software (AI generated or not) will require a "Project: Software" flair, and these flairs should curb the vast majority of the low quality and spammy posts.

Thank you.


r/ADSB 4h ago

Plane Spotting Saw Max Verstappen's plane land in NCE

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13 Upvotes

walking along the beach and saw it coming in and was like I think that's Max's plane. jumped on the adsb app and sure enough. on fr24 it just says private.


r/ADSB 18h ago

Smallest adsB sending unit

4 Upvotes

Im a little beyond drones here...but still fluong under faa paragraph.. But I was wondering what is the smallest lughtest unit. An ounce including battery would be ideal.

Or is a pipe dream?


r/ADSB 12h ago

I need help tracking a historical international flight

1 Upvotes

Hi, I need an ADS-B specialist to help me!

I am looking for evidence of an unscheduled flight taken from KUL (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) to NYT (Naypyidaw, Myanmar) in 2023.

This was not a scheduled flight. I am new to ADS-B but it looks like historical flight tracking is pretty much impossible so I think I am looking for someone who has kept a database of everything!

I have details of the exact time and date and I believe it was a military plane.

I am not just looking for a free researcher and I am happy to discuss payment and engage someone to do this work.

If anyone out there can help or advise me I would be really grateful. Thanks so much!


r/ADSB 1d ago

alternative API besides airplanes.live?

34 Upvotes

I made a tracker that I was going to give to my friends and recruiters at hiring events... if it works out, I planned on selling too... I preferred airplanes.live over adsbx so I wanted to use their API. I sent an email August 7th, and never got a response... so I ended up getting FR24 API and put airplanes.live as backup, making 24 calls a day per device. then my service got cut off. I sent another email, and guy went off asking how I enjoyed abusing their services and if I enjoy abusing other services too. then sent a copy/paste email offering 2 tiers of services at $25 and $50. I thought about just doing it, but I did a quick search and read more drama here about that guy and how he was banned from here...

Now I rather stop my contribution to that network (I have 3 devices that contribute to their adsb) and give me money to someone else.

I feel like he's sensitive and will just get upset at me and block my services right in the middle of me supplying feed to the trackers.

anyway, my question now is... Who else is out there with good service that's hobby oriented and not unhinged?

adsb.fi and adsb.lol are the ones I can think of. anyone else?


r/ADSB 10h ago

Q4

0 Upvotes

The US Q4 Drones appear in Strait of Hormuz


r/ADSB 1d ago

Nice Data 💾 Seeing 4x improvement in range

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14 Upvotes

huge thanks to the group that responded to my last post! With your help I've been able to 4x my reception range!

my setup was getting an average of ~25nm, and I really had no sense of what good looked like.

it was clear that I had an issue in my hardware. After buying, and making, several antennas it turns out the issue was in my dongle.

since upgrading I’ve been able to see out to 100nm, and I’m not even in a remotely optimal antenna location. So I’ll spend the next few weeks optimizing that and testing out the antennas I bought and made.

I’ll be streaming some updates this afternoon for anyone interested: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1DGLdZeWNBMGm

original post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ADSB/s/4pl04tz53i


r/ADSB 1d ago

Convert this to ADS-B

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41 Upvotes

Looking for a bit of advice, i have this pisces p100 miner, I'm planning on mounting it high above my house, say 8feet pole from the chimney. It contains a raspberry pi4 4gb, and a 64gb memory card, i figured i can get a poe hat, then just run an ethernet wire up the pole from my attic, which already has an ethernet switch installed with poe....then just screw my pi hut ads-b receiver onto the spare connection on top of the external box enclosure, which already has the correct connections....ill buy a flightaware usb dongle ( the blue one ).... or do you think i need to use say 1 feet of cable because of interference.....? Altho the pi4 and electronics are enclosed in a metal case so probably won't be a problem..... Also is it possible to have two Ads-b receivers located at the same house using the same Internet connection....?


r/ADSB 19h ago

Plane Spotting Finding the tail number of these CZ flights based solely on flight records

0 Upvotes

Hi guys, I would like to know if you can help me identify the tail numbers of these flights?

Detail Flight 1:  CZ 5052 (MNL→CAN) Flight 2:  CZ 3099 (CAN→PKX) Flight 3:  CZ 3100 (PKX→CAN) Flight 4:  CZ 5051 (CAN→MNL)
Date Jun 25, 2026 Jun 25, 2026 Jun 29, 2026 Jun 29, 2026
Airline China Southern China Southern China Southern China Southern
Flight No. CZ5052 CZ3099 CZ3100 CZ5051
Route MNL–CAN CAN–PKX PKX–CAN CAN–MNL
Aircraft Type/Variant B737 Max 10 A350 - XXX B787 - XXX B737 - XXX
(STD) 3:45 AM 9:00 AM 6:30 PM 11:45 PM
(STA) 6:25 AM 12:15 PM 9:40 PM 2:25 AM (+1d)
Registration/Tail No. B-1207

I do not have any pictures of the aircraft anymore and I need to determine the tail number in order to know the first flight, the delivery date, and age.

This is an unusal assignment from a client . AI said Tail number would help me unlock all the details I need.

Shooting my shot here, thank you


r/ADSB 1d ago

Plane Spotting So many P-8s in WA nowhere near the water

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1 Upvotes

Anyone know why there’s 4 P-8s flying around WA but not near the ocean?

Thinking training flights but dunno.


r/ADSB 1d ago

Plane Spotting E-3 Sentry 'WATCH30'

1 Upvotes

WATCH30 out of Tinker getting in some work around the Concho Valley


r/ADSB 2d ago

Project Showcase: Software - Little or No AI Assistance Turn your ADS-B feeder into a card collecting game

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41 Upvotes

AI Usage Disclaimer (NOT SLOP, PLEASE READ):

Before you instinctively downvote a new project posted here:

To comply with r/adsb's post guidelines:

I am a professional software engineer with over 15 years of experience in the industry, not some vibe slopper. A portion of the codebase was assisted with AI software development tools. Any good software engineer in 2026 is using AI, and anyone who tells you otherwise is not being honest with you. Writing frontend javascript is the bane of my existence and AI is very useful for speeding up development time. That being said, all of the code is either written by myself or fully reviewed before being deployed.


Greetings fellow ADS-B fans,

I'm here to announce adsb.win, a new community-powered ADS-B network, and it's ready to onboard more feeders. The basic idea is that feeding aircraft data should be more interesting than watching a few counters go up and looking at graphs designed in 1986.

When your linked receiver spots an aircraft, adsb.win attributes that sighting to your feeder. Aircraft seen by your feeder become collectible cards, and the flight time you actually receive earns XP toward higher card tiers. You can click on an aircraft card to see the individual registrations and flights your own receiver captured.

There’s also a "feederboard" with rankings for things like aircraft, flights, observed time, range, altitude, and speed. I’m hoping it feels like a friendly competition between feeder setups and locations.

A few other things that are different:

  • Live XP activity while aircraft are being received
  • Aircraft rarity based on how frequently a model is actually observed
  • Personal range maps and 30-day polar plots
  • Public profiles, with optional leaderboard participation
  • Anonymous feeding if you want to contribute without signing up

We're currently integrated into the latest adsb.im beta release (you can update to the latest beta and set it up in the "data sharing" page) and there are manual settings for Docker Ultrafeeder as well. You're free to feed anonymously, but the fun stuff comes with linking your account.

The game is still in a bit of a "beta mode" as I work out things like filtering out bunk data (Ultralight Aircraft are probably not flying at 700+kt, etc) and fine-tuning the XP awarding and leveling of cards, but if you've got a feeder running, I'd love to have you help test it out!

About myself:

If you're a fan of the mobile game Skycards, you may recognize me from r/SkyCards and my associated project skystats.win (not to be confused with the other Skystats for adsb data). I built skystats.win over the past 5 months with a lot of useful features such as the filtered live map. We've got an active discord community of a few thousand members and I decided it was time to bring them to the dark side of adsb feeding.


Feel free to give it a try and let me know if you run into any issues or have any questions!


r/ADSB 2d ago

Busiest day in aviation history (23 July 2026) at the six busiest West European airports

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15 Upvotes

r/ADSB 2d ago

The line of aircraft coming out of UAE is crazy

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9 Upvotes

r/ADSB 2d ago

KC-135 Flight track appearing in Iran

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5 Upvotes

r/ADSB 2d ago

Why can't I see ground vehicles and planes that have landed?

2 Upvotes

When I look at flightradar24 without filters, I can see the planes on the runway. However, when i filter by my adsb, I lose track of the planes after they touch down.

I'm running:

AirNav Radar FlightStick - ADS-B USB Receiver (green stick)

MPD Digital I LMR®400 Times Microwave Coaxial Cable

Signalplus 1090MHz ADS-B Antenna-Omni Fiberglass Antenna 12dbi 45inc


r/ADSB 2d ago

Hercs over Louisiana Saturday night

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11 Upvotes

r/ADSB 2d ago

How low were the Canadian Army Hercules that buzzed Joeperry lake/Bon Echo in Ontario on Friday?

0 Upvotes

I was out for a solo swim in nice quiet peaceful Joeperry lake when then trees in one particular direction sounded like a hurricane was coming from the East. Two Hercules (I think) a grey one and a green one flew over at what looked to be twice the height of the trees.

August 28 around 4pm

Curious as to how high they actually were. I suspect they took off from Trenton.

Thanks for your help!


r/ADSB 3d ago

Saw this zip over the store

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8 Upvotes

Saw this buzz the tower which is 100 yards from me. Must be doing some work on the instruments


r/ADSB 2d ago

Built an app that predicts when a plane will cross the sun/moon from your exact location — curious what sub thinks

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0 Upvotes

r/ADSB 4d ago

What's a respectable reception range for an indoor setup?

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29 Upvotes

I'm trying to optimize the reception range of my ads-b setup. For now I'm limited to an indoor setup. The best spot I've found so far is the attic, but I'm basically out of cable and trying to add no new hardware, (cables count as hardware right?)

Pi 4 model B

RTL-SDR Realtek RTL2832U

I'm getting roughly 20nm in each direction, but a closer inspection shows that I'm really only getting 10-15nm for traffic under 15k.

See the third image for stats.


r/ADSB 4d ago

NATO AWACS

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6 Upvotes

r/ADSB 5d ago

New ADS-B antenna size was a shock compared to the current one from pi hut....!!

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126 Upvotes

r/ADSB 4d ago

Plane Spotting T38s finally entering the Iran-War /s

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3 Upvotes

r/ADSB 4d ago

Once again, it's WW3 E4B Doomsday (GORDO42), an E6 Mercury and Rivet Joint (TOPCT52) all airborne at the same time

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4 Upvotes