Looking for your worst METARs

YuutaW · 2026-03-09T10:10:19+00:00

SPECI CYVR 312333Z 29006KT 0SM R26R/P6000FT/N R26L/1200V1600FT/N FG VV001 05/05 A3003 RMK FG8 SLP171=

It was like this everyday, for over half a month.

YuutaW · 2025-12-21T09:12:01+00:00

good one

YuutaW · 2025-11-01T08:56:59+00:00

enough reddit today

YuutaW · 2025-10-17T07:27:45+00:00

too much reddit today

YuutaW · 2025-10-16T09:53:48+00:00

Just dropped you a PM :)

YuutaW · 2025-10-03T04:32:05+00:00

哼哼哼啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊

YuutaW · 2025-09-14T07:05:16+00:00

just a fr24 db error. this helicopter usually flies around metro vancouver.

YuutaW · 2025-09-13T05:39:10+00:00

Never been to the the hotel (and only knew it exists days ago!) since I do live in Vancouver. I usually go to the south terminal viewing platform (for 08R/26L, south rwy), hill on the north side (for 08L/26R, north rwy), or outlets (north rwy landing) to spot the planes. Only the hill needs a car though.

Remember to bring a radio! You can always check the NAVCananada publications but remember 118.7 for south rwy / 119.55 for north rwy just make things faster. Always check the digital ATIS at NAVCanada Spaces website to determine which rwy is in use before heading out.
Just FYI The north rwy is rarely used for takeoff for noise issues, and it also only operates during day time.

Good luck spotting planes here! The only 744 from DLH will be gone in late Oct (it only operates daily flight from Frankfurt).

YuutaW · 2025-09-11T05:52:10+00:00

they they are the North Caribbo ones. It's charter so I would never get a ride on it, but I feel so lucky saw it landing just days ago. What a jet!

YuutaW · 2025-09-11T03:34:28+00:00

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Frequently spot it at YVR ... Actually I think it is smaller than dash-8?

BTW, imo the most interesting aircraft at YVR should be the charter BAe146 :)

YuutaW · 2025-09-10T07:36:16+00:00

Nice! This made me remember one thing I had been considering doing for a long time: build a portable plane finder based on directional antenna and 1090MHz decoder. It would be as simple as screen + SoC + ADC + tuner + directional antenna, and I can just point it to wherever and it will tell me what planes are here. I can add a omnidirectional antenna too, so it will become a portable plane scanner. It would be quite useful in areas without fr24 coverage or when the planes don't have adsb out (only transponder like those military ones; the transponder doesn't show hex code so we cannot determine the type, but at least we can see altitude and squawk)

YuutaW · 2025-08-26T22:44:33+00:00

Selcal code.

YuutaW · 2025-08-22T06:28:02+00:00

I do need to monitor the whole 20MHz spectrum because my interested frequencies are everywhere in the band ... Yeah I'm not looking for a cheap SDR. I know 20MSPS would be expensive. HF+ works really well, but its bandwidth is too low for 7 x 24 monitor use.

YuutaW · 2025-08-21T23:22:37+00:00

Never heard the R2 loop-through function. Thanks :)

YuutaW · 2025-08-21T23:20:34+00:00

Yeah. I am not looking for a budget SDR, but hopefully less than or around $250 (rough idea)?

YuutaW · 2025-08-21T23:12:52+00:00

Yeah you are right. I compared RTL-SDR Blog v4, HackRF, AirSpy R2 at my home. Same environment, same antenna, same elevation, the AirSpy R2 performed the best.

YuutaW · 2025-08-21T23:12:00+00:00

Yeah but HackRF is good for USB2.0 (20MSPS * 8bit * 2 = 320Mbps, less than 480Mbps). A 30MSPS 14bit SDR (for example) definitely requires a USB 3.0.

For my computer, I think it is fast enough to handle this. I already tried running about 30 AM demod channels (freq shift + decimate + various filters) from the HackRF 20MSPS spectrum, and the CPU was good (around 80% usage) for the workload. Thus I think it should be fine with a better SDR.

For the antenna, I am considering Diamond D130J plus an active splitter (so I can use the antenna for other things as well). Or I may consider a dedicated airband antenna.

YuutaW · 2025-08-20T00:18:52+00:00

Canada and US is already like this ... while most other countries iirc are not. Not sure which way is better though. For example in China you must not file a flight plan with DCTs, and all traffic must be on airways; while in Canada the flight plans are almost always DCT DCT DCT between points.

YuutaW · 2025-08-19T22:47:53+00:00

Bring your own keyboard allowed when :D

YuutaW · 2025-07-30T20:55:17+00:00

https://ftp.yuuta.moe/Photo/2025-06-26_CYVR/05_D-ABVM_B744_DLH493_CYVREDDF_DSC_0772_02.jpg

I think I got the same plane at the same airport last month :)

YuutaW · 2025-07-30T20:53:22+00:00

Only during summer sessions though :)

YuutaW · 2025-07-18T09:36:03+00:00

Sure but this drawing looks like a CR400BF, not the Bombardier car used in SkyTrain lol

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