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Interactive map access
Access is granted to the interactive map with the Squawker PC or Squawker Online subscriptions or the current UKAFG printed […]

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Getting Started - Reading the Map
The UKAFG Map is available on [Interactive Map] to logged-in site users — if you don’t see any data on […]
 Using Two Tracker Profiles
Summary: How to use Profile 1 and Profile 2 to keep two independent map setups side by side. Notice the Profile 1 […]
About This Map - Data Sources & Disclaimer
Summary: What the map’s data is (and isn’t) suitable for. You’ll see a disclaimer badge on the map — tap or […]
Installing the Map as an App
Summary: How to add the UKAFG Map to your phone or desktop as an installable app. The UKAFG Map can be […]
Aircraft Radar View
Summary: Opening the standalone Aircraft Radar scope, setting its location, and using its range, filter, table and display controls. The […]
Full-Screen App View (Mobile)
Summary: A chrome-free, full-screen version of the map built for installing on a phone or tablet home screen, with its […]
Reading the Map's Popups in Plain English
Summary: Every popup on the map is written in plain English with the original aviation message kept under a fold. […]
The Radar Map (ATC Display View)
Summary: A map style that looks like an air traffic controller’s radar display: a black scope, a thin coastline, radar […]
Live Flights - Watching Aircraft in Real Time
Summary: How to switch on live flight tracking, filter by altitude, follow an aircraft, and control labels and sound alerts. Switch […]
 Military Flight Filters & the Activity Board
Summary: Filtering live traffic to military aircraft, the live activity summary at the top of the panel, and the full […]
Reading the Aircraft Info Panel
Summary: What’s shown when you click an aircraft: the plain-English summary, the Listen on frequency, the rows of detail, and […]
Emergency Squawk Alerts
Summary: How the map automatically highlights aircraft squawking an emergency code. The map automatically watches for aircraft transmitting one of the […]
Searching for a Specific Aircraft (Watchlist Mode)
Summary: How to search live traffic by callsign, type, registration, operator, squawk, or hex code, and get notified when a […]
Setting Up Custom Alert Zones
Summary: How to draw a custom area on the map and get notified when aircraft enter it. Alert Zones let you […]
Watching Specific Airfields
Summary: How to set up richer arrival and departure notifications for airfields you care about. Watch Airfields gives you more detailed […]
The Aircraft Table
Summary: A sortable list of the aircraft in view, along the bottom of the map – what each column shows, […]
Listen On: How the Map Predicts a Frequency
Summary: How the aircraft panel decides which frequency an aircraft is most likely working, what the confidence badge means, and […]
The Live Military Board
Summary: A board of every military aircraft airborne now: who it is, what it is doing in words, and the […]
Customising the Aircraft Data Block
Summary: Choose what the label under each aircraft shows, spread it over one to four lines, and put it above […]
Airfields, Airbases & Heliports
Summary: Finding airfields, airbases, heliports and ranges on the map, and reading their frequency, weather, airport and NOTAM information. Switch […]
 Transmitter Sites
Summary: Viewing standalone radio transmitter sites and the frequencies/services broadcast from them. The Transmitter Sites layer plots radio transmitter locations that aren’t tied […]
 Navigation Aids - Waypoints, DME, NDB & VOR-DME
Summary: Viewing aeronautical navigation aids on the map and searching for a specific waypoint or beacon. Switch on the Navigation Aids layer to […]
Airport Information - The Full Departures & Arrivals Board
Summary: The full Airport Information board – departures and arrivals up to 24 hours ahead, filterable, with the airport’s weather, […]
Civil Airspace Overlays
Summary: A guide to the civil airspace layers on the map and what each abbreviation means. The Civil Airspace section shows UK civil […]
Military Airspace & Special-Use Areas
ummary: A guide to the military and special-use airspace layers on the map and what each abbreviation means. The Military Airspace section works […]
Airspace Frequencies & Altitude Filtering
Summary: How to find the controlling frequency for any airspace block, and how to filter airspace by altitude. Click any airspace […]
NOTAMs - Live Notices to Airmen
Summary: Reading live NOTAMs on the map in plain English, and how notices are sorted into danger, warning, aerodrome and […]
Aviation Events
Summary: What counts as an aviation event, where the events come from, the scheduled shows from the RAF’s calendar, and […]
Event Push Alerts
Summary: Getting notified automatically when a new air display, flypast or royal flight is published near you. Rather than checking […]
Replaying Past Flight Traffic
Summary: How to load and play back an hour of historical flight traffic from the last 8 days. The History tool […]
Searching Flight History for a Specific Aircraft
Summary: How to search across the full 8-day history window for one aircraft, without replaying hour by hour. Body: If you’re […]
Live Military Intelligence (Active Mil Membership)
Summary: What the Active Mil membership unlocks — live radio-confirmed military activity across bases, sectors, ranges and refuelling areas. Live Mil […]
Weather Map Layers
Summary: Switching on live weather overlays such as rain radar, cloud cover and wind, and the significant-weather and pilot-report layers. […]
Weather Balloon & High-Altitude Tracking
Summary: Tracking professional weather balloons (radiosondes) and amateur high-altitude balloon flights. Two separate layers track balloon flights, both sourced from SondeHub, […]
UK Earthquakes
Summary: Viewing recent seismic activity in the UK on the map. Switch on the UK Earthquakes layer to see recent seismic events plotted […]
VHF/UHF Radio Propagation
Summary: Reading the propagation status badge to understand current VHF and UHF listening conditions. A persistent, colour-coded propagation badge on the map gives […]
Amateur Repeaters
Summary: Finding amateur radio repeater sites on the map. Switch on the Repeaters layer to see amateur radio repeater sites plotted on the […]
Line of Sight / Viewshed Tool
Summary: Estimating radio reception from a chosen location, and grading which known transmitter sites you should be able to hear. The Viewshed […]
WTR Browser - Licensed Radio Sites
Summary: Browsing Ofcom Wireless Telegraphy Register data for licensed radio transmitter sites. Body: The WTR Browser gives you access to Ofcom’s Wireless Telegraphy […]
Contributing ADS-B Data: Why It Helps
Summary: What feeding an ADS-B receiver involves, what MLAT adds, why UK coverage gaps matter for military tracking, and the […]
ADS-B Receiver Hardware: What You Need
Summary: The computer, receiver, antenna, cable and power supply that make up a feeder, what is worth spending money on, […]
Setting Up a Receiver With the airplanes.live Image
Summary: Flashing the ready-made SD card image, getting it on your wifi, setting the antenna position, and checking it is […]
Feeding From a Receiver You Already Have
Summary: Adding airplanes.live to a receiver that already feeds another network, and checking the connection. If you already run a […]
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