Welcome to ACARS Drama, a project dedicated to showcasing the behind the scenes, heroic efforts of commercial aviation
Learn more about what this is an how you can contribute: https://acarsdrama.com
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Very exciting news, Drama Fans!!
We’ve built one of our most requested features—with help from airline and avionics partners.
Introducing HEYcars Drama: the first fediverse-to-ACARS bridge.
You can now reply in real time to ACARS Drama posts and have your message sent directly to the flight deck via our global SDR network and ACARS partners.
How it works:
Reply to a post starting with “HEY:” (ALL CAPS encouraged for vibe alignment). Your message is routed to the cockpit via the FMC. If workload allows, the crew might even respond.
Learn more: https://acarsdrama.com/#heycars
Be nice to the pilots!
New (Quieter) Sub Feeds!
If you're a fan of @acarsdrama - but want to follow a less noisy version of our feed, we're please to announce nine new sub feeds that allow you to follow based on your own personal drama interests!
@emergencies_failures - tracks broken things, system failures, and emergencies
@medical - tracks medical events
@excreta - if it is launched from the human body, you'll find it here
@badpax - often the worst part of flying is the people you are sat next too
@wtf - things that make you ask WTF?!
@animals - our four legged friends are not immune from drama
@wx - weather related happenings and diversions
@ride_reports - bumpiness ratings
@crewing_ops - related to the operational side of aviation
And of course we still have @top_shelf and @trending
We hope that these feeds provide another option for your daily drama ingestion!
Happy Saturday Drama Fans!
This week, thanks to our wonderful array of Sky Drama Farmers, operating their wonderful array of Software Defined Radios, we added coverage in:
Trenton, NJ, USA
Jacksonville, FL, USA
Düsseldorf, Germany
Valparaiso, IN, USA
The drama machine is hungry, and wants to know what is going on in your skies. Interested in joining the harvest? Check out https://acarsdrama.com for info.
Thank you and happy drama'ing.
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Become a Jumpseat member today - memberships help fund our hosting costs, as well as giving you deeper access to explore our message archive.
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It's been a while, and we have quite a few new followers, so we wanted to do a quick tour of ACARS Drama, and what it is. You can always find all this info on acarsdrama.com:
ACARS messages are transmitted in the clear over VHF radio waves between passing planes and ground stations, they are usually intended for Airline operations control etc.
Most of the messages you see on ACARS drama are air to ground, because they are more easily captured. Sometimes you might see ground to air replies.
ACARS was originally designed in the 1970's as a mechanism for sharing OFF/OUT times, but like all tech, has grown in functionality, and is now used more like a SMS, but over VHF radio.
ACARS Drama is fed by a group of volunteers (sky drama farmers) who decode these messages using free /open source software, and feed them to our ingestion endpoint.
ACARS Drama processes every message that comes in, and looks for the interesting ones.
We receive over 200k messages an hour!
Happy Saturday Drama Fans!
This week, thanks to our most awesome army of sky drama farmers, we've added coverage in:
Brussels, Belgium
Taiwan
Danielson, CT, USA
and, what is perhaps our favorite place name we didn't know existed until it popped up:
Liberal, KS, USA
Anywho, if you'd like to help feed the drama machine and harvest AFT LAV happenings for all humankind, check out https://acarsdrama.com for info on how you can achieve the prestigious rank of SKY DRAMA FARMER using cheap hardware and open source software.
USN E/A-18G Growlers of VX-31 "Dust Devils" and VX-23 "Salty Dogs" in the break during Grey Flag, September 2026 #f18 #growler #greyflag #mugu #ea18g #ea18growler #electronicattack #jamming #avgeek #nikon #aircraft #usnavy #Z9 #cvvhrn #VX23 #SaltyDogs #VX31 #DustDevils
#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 1️⃣: Points ⏺️
Oh boy, another year of daily mapmaking!
For Day 1, I decided to create a map of the extant airports of the 🇵🇭 #Philippines that have either an IATA or ICAO code. I thought it would be a simple job, but parsing the data from #Wikipedia was pretty gnarly. Once I had clean data, the actual map creation using #D3js was pretty straightforward.
#avgeek #airports #aviation #maps #Mapstodon #cartography #gischat
Happy Saturday ACARS Fans!
This week, thanks to our wonderful army of Sky Drama Farmers, we added extra coverage in:
Gwangju, South Korea
Thanks to everyone who feeds us!
Interested in sky farming? check out: https://acarsdrama.com#feed for more info on this noble profession.
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Sign up @ https://jumpseat.acarsdrama.com
As a thanks for your support, you get:
As always, thanks for your support. The next time you are on a flight remember the goal of this project is to show you the heroic, unseen work that goes into every flight.
Be nice to your flight attendants and crews, because you never know when they'll be stepping up to help you on your worst day.
Happy Saturday Drama Fans - it's time for our weekly ACARS Drama update!
This week, thanks to our wonderful sky drama farmers, we added coverage in the following areas:
Popham, UK
Dublin, Ireland
Madrid, Spain
Bristol, UK
Burbank, CA, USA
South Nashville, TN, USA
Thanks to all who partake in the sky-harvest!
Additionally, there were some major architectural changes behind the scenes this week to how ACARS Drama runs, to ensure it can keep on top of all the data we now receive thanks to all you wonderful people.
These changes are completely transparent to the feed, but still, they are pretty cool and a testament to how this project has grown.
For more info, check out https://acarsdrama.com to learn about the project, how you can feed, and other ways you can support our growth!
Happy Saturday Drama Fans!!
This week, thanks to our wonderful army of sky drama farmers, we added coverage in:
Montclair, NJ, USA
LIsbon, Portugal
Thanks to our latest feeders, and to everyone who is part of the largest airborne excreta reporting entity on planet earth!
To learn more about how you can support ACARS Drama, or just learn what it is, check out https://acarsdrama.com.
Here you'll find information on how you can become a sky drama farmer, and harvest the shenanigans from above.
If you can't run a feed but would like to show your support for ACARS Drama, you can buy us a coffee! https://ko-fi.com/Z8Z21XZK7N
We won't actually spend the money on coffee, we'll use it to pay for the infrastructure required since we accidentally grew something from a single raspberry pi to a massively complex VHF-to-shitpost pipeline!
Have a great week, may your coffee makers remain operable!
Happy Saturday Drama Fans, and a special happy 4th to all who celebrate!
This week, thanks to our wonderful army of Sky Drama Farmers, we've added coverage in:
Raleigh, NC, USA
Louisville, KY, USA
Crawley, UK
AND NEW COUNTRY ALERT: Liberec, Czechia
https://acarsdrama.com#feed = learn about sky farming!
Sky Drama Farmers, as a thanks for their feeds, get free access to Jumpseat, which allows them to dive into all the data behind the scenes.
https://jumpseat.acarsdrama.com
Becoming a Jumpseat member is a great way to show some ❤️ to ACARS Drama - and get access to 1.1 million messages in our archive!
Thanks to everyone who supports, enjoys, or is working hard on a plane, at an airport, in a control tower - to keep folks moving, especially if you are doing so over a holiday weekend!
Stay safe, have fun. Don't blow off your fingers - you need them for ACARS'ing!
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USAF HC-130J Combat King II 09-0108, 418th TES, Davis-Monthan AFB on final for Pt. Mugu during Grey Flag September 2026 with an Angry Kitten electronic warfare pod #ALQ167 #AngryKitten #cvvhrn #drone #AvGeek #photography #Nikon #greyflag #nasptmugu #mugu #ptmugu #HC130J
USAF F-16C 91-0374 and 88-0423, OT 422nd TES, 53rd TEG In the break during Grey Flag, September 2026 #GreyFlag #F16 #photography #aircraft #nasptmugu #Nikon #Z9 #avgeek #photography #cvvhrn #OT
X-Plane!!!! Lockheed Martin X-59 Quesst at FL378 and 704 knots doing high altitude supersonic testing, September 15, 2026 #X59 #NASA #supersonic #Edwards #EdwardsAFB #milair #nikon #aviationphotography #photography #AvGeek #cvvhrn
