Feed PlaneTrack. Extend the map.
If you already run an ADS-B receiver, one line points it at PlaneTrack and puts your corner of the sky on a live global map.
What you get, and what you help build
Feeding is a fair trade. You share the data your receiver already picks up, and in return you get full Premium and a real hand in shaping global coverage.
Free Premium while you feed
Your Premium membership stays active for as long as your feeder keeps sending data. Real-time map, 365-day history, alerts, and exports, at no cost.
Grow global coverage
You extend the live map into places no one currently covers. One well-placed receiver opens up a region that was previously blank.
Help oceanic and remote tracking
Your data helps track flights over oceans and remote regions, where reception is scarce and every receiver counts far more than another one over Europe.
Add PlaneTrack to a receiver you already run
You already have a receiver decoding aircraft, so you only need to send a copy of that same data to PlaneTrack as well. Nothing you feed today stops or changes, and you do not need a second Pi or dongle. It takes about two minutes.
- Sign up and tick the data provider box. Create an account at signup.html and tick "I want to provide my ADS-B data". You get a Provider Key, and your setup page shows every command below with your key already filled in.
- On your Pi, run one line. This works on almost any receiver that is already decoding (FlightAware / PiAware, FlightRadar24, adsbexchange, or plain dump1090-fa / readsb). Replace YOUR_KEY with the Provider Key from step 1:
curl -sSL https://planetrack.ai/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- YOUR_KEY - That is it. Within a minute your aircraft join the live network and your Premium membership activates and stays active while you feed. Check it any time with sudo systemctl status planetrack-feeder.
Already run Docker or Ultrafeeder? Add PlaneTrack as one more Beast destination instead: put adsb,feed.planetrack.ai,30004,beast_reduce_plus_out in your ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG, set the UUID= shown on your setup page, then run docker compose up -d. Beast feeders can also join MLAT (help locate aircraft that broadcast no GPS) by adding mlat,feed.planetrack.ai,31090 to MLAT_CONFIG with an accurate receiver location. How the data pipeline works.
No receiver yet? A Raspberry Pi with a $20 USB SDR dongle and a small antenna is all it takes. Install dump1090-fa or readsb so it is decoding aircraft, then follow the steps above.
Airports with heavy traffic and almost no reception
These airports handle thousands of scheduled routes but sit in ADS-B blind spots. One well-placed receiver near any of them changes the map more than a thousand redundant feeders over Europe.
Put your sky on the map
Sign up, tick the data provider box, and run one line. Your receiver joins a live global network and your Premium starts the moment data flows.
Sign up and get your Provider Key