Click an ACARS message in the left sidebar to zoom the map to the
matching aircraft and open its detail panel. Aircraft with ACARS
activity show a DLK badge in the tracked list. Default NA frequency
changed to only check 131.550 on initial load.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add ACARS label translation, message classification, and field parsers
so decoded messages show human-readable descriptions instead of raw
label codes (H1, DF, _d, 5Z, etc.). Integrate translated ACARS
messages into the ADS-B aircraft detail panel and add a live message
feed to the standalone ACARS mode.
- New utils/acars_translator.py with ~50 label codes, type classifier,
and parsers for position reports, engine data, weather, and OOOI
- Enrich messages at ingest in routes/acars.py with translation fields
- Backfill translation in /adsb/aircraft/<icao>/messages endpoint
- ADS-B dashboard: DATALINK MESSAGES section in aircraft detail panel
with auto-refresh, color-coded type badges, and parsed field display
- Standalone ACARS mode: scrollable live message feed (max 30 cards)
- Fix default N. America ACARS frequencies to 131.550/130.025/129.125
- Unit tests covering all translator functions
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Update default ACARS frequencies for North America to 131.725/131.825 MHz and add ISS (145.825 MHz) as a selectable APRS frequency region.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add VDL2 (VHF Digital Link Mode 2) decoding via dumpvdl2 as a new mode,
and promote ACARS from ADS-B-dashboard-only to a first-class standalone
mode in the main SPA. Both aviation datalink modes now have full nav
entries, sidebar partials with region-based frequency selectors, and
SSE streaming. VDL2 also integrated into the ADS-B dashboard as a
collapsible sidebar alongside ACARS.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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