ACARS 4+
Black Cat Systems
Designed for iPad
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- $2.99
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Description
Want to display ACARS transmissions, without using a bulky computer? ACARS lets you view ACARS aircraft transmissions on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
A radio/scanner capable of tuning the 118-136 MHz aircraft band is required. Just set it next to the radio's speaker, tune in an ACARS frequency, and watch the decodes. Or, for even better reception, use a pair of earbuds, plugged into the radio’s headphone jack, rather than the internal speaker.
You can save decoded ACARS packets to a file to view later, or transfer to your computer via iTunes.
Aircraft model information for many planes in a built in database is displayed along with the decoded packets. You can also add your own plane information to the database.
Packet fields are color coded on iOS 6 and later.
Buy your copy right now, and start decoding and displaying ACARS transmissions in minutes.
What’s New
Version 1.4
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Updates for iOS 9.2.
Ratings and Reviews
Requires some audio tweaking
First make sure you can get the RF from the planes as high quality as you can (good antenna, receiver tweaks).
Then it will require various experimenting placing the iPhone in good position so the phone mics can hear the transmission. And also experiment with the receiver’s volume.
You will see the data scrolling on the phone screen if you get all of the above correct. Now look at your data for quality decodes. If the data looks garbled, play around with the settings and positions again.
And....in the app’s configuration, make sure you have a file selected to store the data on the phone. Another thing I really dislike in the app is that if you open another app, all the data displayed in the ACARS screen goes blank and then if you want to view the data, you have to open the stored data files. It does this everytime you goto another app on your phone.
I want to try this app after adding an external microphone to my iPhone 8+ via a splitter cable. I really hope this will help with the decoding of crap data to quality data.
Good luck - when all is tweaked correctly, it is a great app. But honestly, use PDW on a PC.
It works.
VERY minimum application, it receives ACARS and that's it. You can put your earbud microphone next to radio speaker, but best bet would be a line-level microphone input. Even if packet doesn't fully decide properly, you get what does decode. Thats a plus. Wish it could run in the background. Only thing I understand is Tail number and type aircraft in packet. It would be nice if the rest of the jibberish is translated to what it actually means. However, it does work. I use in with SDR on the Airband.
Needs support for Apple Watch
Needs support for Apple Watch
App Privacy
The developer, Black Cat Systems, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple.
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Information
- Seller
- Black Cat Systems
- Size
- 1.8 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 6.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2010-2016 Black Cat Systems
- Price
- $2.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.