Would it be possible to pick up planned flights in the surrounding area if you register your flight? Too complex?
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
planned flights are automatically posted to Dronescene. You probably don’t see any when you check an area because so few people register a flight.
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Without continuous improvement obsolesence is almost inevitable …
By planned flight i meant non-drone flights… i.e. planes!
The lag on live data for planes, and the speed that they move, renders the data obsolete before you see it.
Also, (thankfully,) most are way above 400ft and of zero interest to drone pilots.
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true except in some locations … i regularly see flights down on the coast here where if i knew they were coming in I wouldnt put my drone up …over the sea they can go lower … anyway like everything else its a sugegstion …
And therein lies the issue.
ADSB maps depend on ADSB monitors, and the lower the aircraft the fewer, to zero, monitors have contact with them, and there are not a lot of them “just off the cost”.
I could watch and see this kind of track any day of the week.
It was not on the ADSB Exchange map between the red mark and the track of it’s resumed connection.
For me, it’s way too unreliable.
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Currently the best bet for that is to buy a DJI Air 2S, which will provide alerts on aircraft flights through the built-in ADS-B receiver. I don’t know if there are any other drones with that capability but there will certainly be more on the way. Unfortunately, not all manned aircraft broadcase ADS-B so it’s still no guarantee.
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I think there’s a simpler reason not to display live plane data (we have discussed this in the past btw).
If you’re flying your drone you’re going to be looking at your drone in the sky, or looking at the screen on your device.
You won’t be looking at Drone Scene 
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Your “spotter” might be … but the data is lagged and unreliable. 
oh well …all useful information anyway … thanks
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DJI FPV (The Bastard)
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The Air 2 has it, just not in this country… for some reason DJI removed the RX on the European released Mavic Air 2’s no idea why…
If you really want it, download Flight Radar and just check it as part of your pre flight checks.
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I have it already 
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Where is the National Trust data from?
Just been looking at National Trust land at Trevose Head, is Dronescene up to date with the latest boundaries?
And this is from
Cheers 
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National Trust make one dataset available publicly, which Drone Scene uses, and use a different dataset on their “Land Map”, which doesn’t seem to be publicly available.
The one on Drone Scene covers NT properties that you can visit, including ones that are open all the time, not just the ones you pay for.
The “Land Map” covers everything they own. As you’ll see if you check our local area, that’s a lot of farmland.
So far as I can tell, the NT Byelaws cover all the land they own, but I seriously doubt they’d bother to enforce them over farmland or similar areas. I’ve certainly taken off and landed from this type of land.
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Thanks, @kvetner I was just wondering why the maps are different and you explained it perfectly
They do own a lot of land locally and I have TOAL from many parts without knowing, not that I am bothered!! Its just good to know 
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Just to add to @kvetner 's reply re:
Drone Scene doesn’t store or use any offline or cached data at all.
Each and every single layer you see on the map is pulled in live and in real time from various data providers. It is impossible for Drone Scene layers to ever become out of date 
Drone Scene is the only drone mapping platform in the world to do this with multiple different datasets.
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Forgive me if everybody knows this but I have not been able to find any Help guide: when I file a flight report on Drone Scene it puts a large circle around the centre point: usually far bigger than I intend to fly. Is there a way to define it more precisely - perhaps by drawing a box shape - which might, for example, be long and narrow and not circular at all? Thanks.