Introducing the UK Aircraft Tracker: an aviation Dottie Board, available today
— Everycast Labs, Dottie Boards, Aviation, UK Aircraft Tracker, LED Display, Product Launch — 2 min read
Our first Dottie Board followed the RNLI's lifeboats around the coast. Today we're taking it to the skies. The UK Aircraft Tracker is a new aviation Dottie Board, and it's on sale from today at the Everycast Labs shop for £100 including VAT.
It's an interactive LED map that brings aircraft activity across Great Britain and Ireland to life in real time. Emergency services, the military, VFR weather, airports and individual registrations, all across British airspace, glowing on your wall or desk.
Emergency and defence tracking
The headline feature is Emergency & Defence Mode. Each type of aircraft gets its own colour, so you can tell what's overhead at a glance:
- Air ambulance: pink
- Coastguard: yellow
- Police: blue
- Military: green
- Emergency squawk: pink
- Red Arrows: red
- Battle of Britain Memorial Flight: brown
A dynamic legend only shows the aircraft types that are currently active, so it never clutters up with things that aren't flying.
Airports, weather and your own aircraft
You can show airports, filtered by size: large airports in green, medium in orange, small in red, and heliports in purple.
VFR Mode shows live METAR weather at those airports as VFR (green), MVFR (yellow), IFR (orange) or LIFR (red), so you can see flying conditions across the country in one glance.
If you've got a favourite aircraft, you can also track an individual registration (for example G-ABCD) and watch it move across the map.
Coverage includes England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
Make it yours
Every category's LED colour can be changed, along with the background and country border colours. You can schedule when the screen and sound are on, set the volume, turn launch sound notifications on or off, and set your timezone.
The board connects over WiFi and is configured through a simple web interface, so you don't need any technical expertise. Plug it in, connect it, and pick your settings.
Coming soon
We're also working on a Military Mode with automatic aircraft type recognition, so you'll be able to tell a Typhoon from an F-35, a Hawk or a Chinook.
Get yours today
The UK Aircraft Tracker is available now from shop.everycastlabs.uk. You can read more on the product page, and see the rest of the range at dottieboards.com.
Got a hobby you'd like to see on a Dottie Board? Let us know at [email protected].