If you want to know where your yacht is:

mine is in the harbor at Monaco

I bet the Somali pirates love this site... although that part of the ocean is blacked out.

larry ellison's yatch is names the rising sun- search for it and it pops up in cape town with all sorts of photos and specs. cool stuff.

Wasn't there an AP that was just shut down by the Feds? If you have this AP and aimed your cell phone at a plane it would give the flight number, heading, altitude and destination.

Wonder if this will go the same way.

Dan

Plane Finder? Still for sale on iTunes for $5. There's a web site too that has (had?) real time ADS-B info - it was fun to toy around with for a little while with my son a few weeks ago.

I just DLed the free version of Plane Finder 4 days ago. It will tell you either tail number or flight number. The $5 version gives you a helluva lot more info.

Shaun wrote: mine is in the harbor at Monaco I bet the Somali pirates love this site... although that part of the ocean is blacked out. larry ellison's yatch is names the rising sun- search for it and it pops up in cape town with all sorts of photos and specs. cool stuff.

all you have to do if you don't want to be identified is to turn off your AIS system, its not required to be active either while underway or while docked. some people are just dumb and never turn their electronics off...

Strizzo wrote:

Shaun wrote: mine is in the harbor at Monaco I bet the Somali pirates love this site... although that part of the ocean is blacked out. larry ellison's yatch is names the rising sun- search for it and it pops up in cape town with all sorts of photos and specs. cool stuff.

all you have to do if you don't want to be identified is to turn off your AIS system, its not required to be active either while underway or while docked. some people are just dumb and never turn their electronics off...

What makes up the acronym AIS? I am interested in learning a bit more about this stuff.

In reply to Shaun:

Automatic Identification System

built into most of the latest chartplotters, the chartplotter updates the signal with the data that is would already be displaying on the chart (heading, speed, destination), along with some basic info about the vessel that you have entered into your chartplotter (vessel name, length, beam, draft).

http://www.discriminator.nl/ais/index-en.html

Strizzo wrote: In reply to Shaun: Automatic Identification System built into most of the latest chartplotters, the chartplotter updates the signal with the data that is would already be displaying on the chart (heading, speed, destination), along with some basic info about the vessel that you have entered into your chartplotter (vessel name, length, beam, draft). http://www.discriminator.nl/ais/index-en.html

Thanks!!