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Dmitri Popov
Personal blog of an amateur airplane photographer, Linux user, and clues coder.
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If you happen to own blink(1), you'll be pleased to learn that you can use it with ADS-B station. The blink1.sh shell script that comes with ADS-B station changes blink(1)'s color depending on the number of aircraft in range. Not only it...
There is always something interesting to catch in NUE. Flightradar24 promised a Luftwaffe Airbus A400M, but the machine was a no-show. A Turkish Airlines Airbus A321-200 featuring colorful EuroLeague livery made up for it.
Recent ADS-B station updates were mostly minor ones: a fix here, a cosmetic tweak there — that kind of stuff. The latest update is a different story, though. I spent several evenings working on flights statistics functionality, because...
What promised to be a rather uneventful day in NUE, turned out to be anything but. But let's start from the very beginning. After being cooped up in the apartment for a good part of the week, I decided that a day in NUE would do me some...
The third day of 2025 dished out this winter's first (and maybe last) snow followed by sunny weather: a perfect opportunity to venture out. So I went to NUE. There wasn't much on the menu besides my good old friend D-BADA.
Summers in our neck of the wood are getting increasingly hot. And while the last one wasn't as a suffocating scorcher as it could have been, it was hot enough to make me concerned for the well-being of my ADS-B station. You see, the...
This is my 2024 report.
With just a few hours before 2025 arrives, it's safe to assume that this is going to be the last post of 2024. Considering the current state of the world, wishing you a happy year seems silly. Stay safe, take care of yourself and your...
We flew back to Germany from Aalborg. To put it mildly, there was not much going on airplane-wise in AAL. But while we were having a quick bite before boarding, I spotted this Beechcraft King Air.
On our way to Denmark, we made a short stop in Amsterdam. My plan was to spend some time on Saturday and Sunday capturing airplanes, but the Dutch weather decided otherwise.
A quick ADS-B station update. A simple Python script is now responsible for collecting system vitals (RAM, storage, and CPU temperature). Speaking of CPU temperature, it's now possible to specify the correct temperature sensor in the...
Yesterday, my ADS-B station broke a new record by tracking no fewer than 120 (yes, that's one hundred twenty) aircraft.
So last weekend I went to Frankfurt. I booked a single night at Staycity, and my plan was to just grab a light dinner and watch TV in the evening.
We plan to spend the Christmas break with my in-laws in Denmark, which means interacting with people — a lot. The introvert that I am, I need some time alone to gather mental strength to get through Christmas unscathed.
You may or may not have noticed, that this very blog has been down for a while. Apparently, something went terribly wrong at Contabo, and it took my VPS down with it. After ~24 hours and counting of downtime, and frustratingly pointless...