The Alert Inbox

Summary: Every alert the map sent you, kept for two weeks, behind the bell button.

A push alert used to be only a notification: dismiss it, miss it, or have your browser block it, and it was gone. The map now keeps each alert it sends you.

Opening It

The bell button in the map’s button stack (Your alerts: what you were told and when) appears once push alerts are on in one of your profiles. A number on it counts the alerts you haven’t looked at. Opening the inbox marks them read.

What It Holds

Each alert is listed with when it was sent, what kind it was and its text:

• aircraft entering your alert zones;
• arrivals and departures at your watched airfields;
• matches for your watchlist searches;
• your watched aircraft and watched squawks;
• emergency squawks;
• aviation events near you.

An alert about an aircraft that is still flying is marked Flying now: open it on the map, and clicking it does that. A filter box narrows the list.

Alerts are kept for two weeks and then removed. If the inbox is empty it says so: alerts from your zones, airfields, watchlist and watched aircraft are kept here once push is on.

See Watching an Airframe or a Squawk, Setting Up Custom Alert Zones and Watching Specific Airfields for the alerts themselves.