Intro to Planefaggin

Welcome to the Kekistan Air Force (KAF) Recon Squad!!!

This is provided as a way to help you get started with tracking AC's

Tracking AC is vital to seeing and being able to paint a picture of habbenings across the world.

Planefaggin can track any given Aircraft, Military or Commercial (military assuming it's transponder is turned on and transmitting) and if you have an idea of who uses which AC (traceable by it's registration or tail #) the mystery of who travels where and when can have some light shed on it. You should have a basic interdast in AC's and a healthy appetite for learning moar about them. I know so much moar about our military since I began doing the pf reports on 8chan in early 2018-was still fairly raw at that so I jumped in on the commercial side and started tracking the AC's that were coming from central america (with one below it using the same call sign) prior to the 2018 election and also part of the on-going caravan saga.. Had several planefags be moar than gracious back then to help me get over that hump of "wut am I looking at here?" and correct any mistakes that I made. Ty to those that were helpful and patient.

This will give a basic overview on applying your newly acquired planefaggin' skillzzz and assist in effectively communicating your input to the board(s). It is not a how to use ADS-B (or the other platforms) guide. Link to ADS-B and other plattys below.

The best advice I can give on your screen caps is take the time to document them correctly. This means writing up your "find" with some basic information that highlights the cap you have placed. In order to easily retrieve these caps (at a later date) you should come up with a nomenclature to use across all AC's you have capped-see below for example.

This takes a little time to get proficient with as your overall level of patience will determine how good you become at it. A common reaction to finding something to report is to say "wow I need to get that in NOW" but having some patience is KEY to being good at this. Many times I've seen a cap show up in general with no description whatsoever and left on it's own. This is no good to anyone as most people just scroll over it-why should they stop if it's just a cap of some plane going somewhere?? This is how some started to rag on planefags by using those poor examples to paint every planefag with the same brush. This is not something you can "teach" as it requires getting into the platform and DOING IT. It is also good practice to let something develop prior to reporting it-except a slam dunk of a major figure departing in a easily identifiable AC.

Familiarizing yourself with the buttons and various options is key to being a great planefag. I use very little of the maps and automated functions as I prefer old school eyes to arrive at muh decisions. Doesn't make me right or my way of doing correct-it werks for me YMMV

This will mean you make mistakes...no problem this habbens to anyone who is on a learning curve. However I cannot guarantee you won't get shit for it in general-you won't in MNR that is for sure. If you have any questions on this please feel free to ask here or in QRB-spend plenty of time here each day so it will get answered if I have one to give.

For example

The name of your cap should have the information described below in the file name otherwise you will be sitting there wondering "did that Nightwatch go to Offutt AFB or Wright-Patterson on it's last trip? Easily found if you save them like this:

ORDER66 USAF E-4B Nightwatch that departed Offutt AFB, Omaha is on final approach to Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton 1031am pst 021321

By using a standardized file name you can easily search for any of those terms in your meme folders. It does take a few extra minutes as you are basically typing in the same information twice...one for your crumb with the cap and one for the file name saved as.

Identifying AC's

The easy ones are POTUS, VP, Sec of State and Defense as they all use specific call signs or in the Secretries case(s) they have used the same tail #'s (registrations) for many years. Examples: Sec of State uses a 757 with tail #98-0002 (cap #2) and when the Sec of Defense travels it is in the Nightwatch E-4B with tail #75-0125 (cap #3)

It's not always easy to tell just who is on what AC at what point as there are many things not seen during stops. passenger(s) depart/arrive, crew changes refueling or not etc.

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A good pf report should have the following information:

Callsign (use the tail # if the pilot has not used-sometimes they get lazy and type 123456 or ABCDE, XXXXX, 00000000 etc.)

Military affiliation

AC type (747, E-4B, P-8 Poseiden, C-32A-military designation for 757, G (Gulfstream) 5, C-40B military for 737 etc)

Departure Airport if you click on the history button located at the top left under the AC type display you can find out where it came from on prior days. This is important as you build your knowledge of when and where all the different types of AC's move around.

Arrival Airport as your knowledge grows you can predict where it is going in some cases.

The Special Air Mission or SAM flights on the east coast are pretty standard but also have surprises. The USAF Special Operations Command 757's (C-32B's) also are somewhat predicatable although some recent new destinations have appeared. You start to get an idea of who goes where and when. Any additional information that you have on weather or possible connections to current habbenings are also good additions. This is your place to shine-as you gather knowledge and experience you'll get to the point where it will take you just a few minutes to get the "lay of the land" on what is habbening AC-wise. It can be intimidating to see a few thousand AC's on your screen and not habs any idea of where to start.

The best place to start is on the front end of ADS-B: https://www.adsbexchange.com/

That brings you to the splash page and clicking on the "ADSBX Radar View''' button it will give you two choices "Tracking Map" and "Map Help". Please go to "Map Help" for a general overview of functions and features prior to opening up "Tracking Map". Or if your bandwidth allows you can open up both at same time.

https://www.adsbexchange.com/map-help/

Cap #1 is basic functions and taken from ADS-B and is the same as "Map Help" for the most part.

Once you become familiar with the functions it is MUCH easier to navigate the platform.

Some of the AC tracking sites use filed flight plans based on where it should be at a given time point-this was pointed out in January 2020 when the Iranians shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet just after Salami was 404'd. Some sites reported it still flying because of the flight plan progress reported it that way not the actual data transmitted. Using ADS-B make sthat a non-issue.

A basic overview of ADS-B-cap#2

Using Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast or ADS-B

A flights position is found using the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and by using ADS-B transmitters. The AC's information on flight position and speed is sent to the ADS-B ground receivers and also tramsmitted to nearlby AC. It is usually transmitted every second however this is limited to area operated in and there are several "dead" zones due to low ground receivers and also topography. The upper central plains, western Pennsylvania and the southwest desert area including eastern CA and southern AZ and NM to name a few.

I use this as a backup in case ADS-B is down or has server issues: http://planeradar.ru/VirtualRadar/desktop.html#

PlaneRadar.RU-it defaults to Russian language so you'll need to go to the menu area to reset that option.

Some back up sites (don't use much if at all)

https://www.flightradar24.com/51.5,-0.12/8

https://planefinder.net/