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Map
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New flight to monitor
Tip: you can also click any aircraft on the map (Flight monitor) and monitor it straight away.
Advanced · date, level, speed, tolerances, coordinates
Use coordinates instead of the flight plan
For legs without a published fix, or if airac.net is down.
Without a planned level the vertical deviation is not checked. Speed and level are read from groups like N0450F350 in the route.
The aircraft is searched for from 60 min before departure until 2 h after the estimated arrival. Climb-out (SID) and arrival (STAR) legs do not trigger lateral alerts.
Flight time
Estimated time
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The distance is filled in from the route and can be adjusted by hand.
METAR/TAF Alert
Shows the aerodromes of active flights and the ones you watch. A dismissed card comes back by itself when a new METAR or TAF arrives.
Alerts are advisory only. The operational decision always rests with the operator, according to its own minima and specifications.
NOTAM Alert
Notifications
Get your alerts outside Rotavia, even with the site closed: on Telegram (phone and computer) and by e-mail. They arrive within about a minute.
Telegram
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- Install Telegram on your phone or computer, if you do not have it.
- Click Connect Telegram. Telegram opens the Rotavia bot; tap Start.
- Within a minute this page shows connected and the bot confirms in the chat.
Only to the e-mail of your own account. Check the spam folder the first time.
Team
People in your company with access to Rotavia. To add someone: they create an account (or you create it in Supabase → Authentication → Users), then you add them with the SQL in the README.
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Online now
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Usage · last 14 days
Counted by the worker. Free coverage = lookups where adsb.lol or adsb.fi had a recent position. Paid lookups = what a paid ADS-B source would have to answer (no free position), at the current 20 s rate and at 60 s.
| Day (UTC) | Flight-hours | Free coverage | Paid @20 s | Paid @60 s | Network calls |
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About Rotavia
Rotavia watches your flights and tells you when something leaves the plan: route, level, signal, weather at destination and NOTAMs. You do not need to keep staring at a radar screen; the alerts come to you.
All analyses are advisory and do not replace the judgment of the dispatcher or the pilot in command.
Getting started
- Sign in with the e-mail and password your administrator gave you (LOGIN, top right).
- If you see "Your account has not been added to a company yet", ask the administrator to add you. Until then only METAR and NOTAM are shown.
- Top bar: ● WORKER ON means the monitoring worker ran in the last 3 minutes (hover it to see its last note). The ☀ / ☾ switch changes between light and dark. Alerts shows how many unread alerts you have.
Monitoring a flight · two ways
1 · Click it on the map (fastest)
- In Flight monitor, zoom into the area. Grey aircraft are the live traffic (button Traffic turns it on/off).
- Click an aircraft. From / To are filled from a route database when available; check them. Only To is needed; leave both empty to just follow it until it lands (max 6 h).
- Click Monitor this flight. It enters as tracking: position, level, ETA, signal and destination weather, without deviation alerts (there is no flight plan route yet).
- To get deviation alerts, select it and use Edit flight to paste the flight plan route.
2 · From the flight plan (full monitoring)
- Open Flight plan.
- Callsign (ICAO): the callsign the transponder sends, e.g.
TAM3050, not the airline flight numberLA3050. - Departure (UTC): planned off-block/take-off time.
- Route: as in the flight plan, from origin to destination, e.g.
SBSP N0450F350 NUXEL UZ23 KIBAP SBCF. Origin and destination are the first and last words; speed and level are read from groups likeN0450F350. - Optionally click Check route to see the points built by airac.net, then Add to monitor.
- Advanced holds date, planned level, speed, tolerances and a coordinates mode. Without a planned level the vertical deviation is not checked.
Reading the monitor
- Counters (top): flights, on route, caution, off route.
- Table: Flight · Route · Level (▲ climbing / ▼ descending, then the planned level) · ETA (live, with +/− minutes against the plan) · Deviation (lateral NM; SID/STAR = not assessed near the airports; tracking = picked from the map) · Status. Problems always come first. Click a row to select it.
- Flight panel (right): route, AIRAC cycle, possible SID/STAR, planned and actual departure, ETA, deviations, phase, current level and vertical rate, next point, remaining distance, ground speed, last position and ICAO24.
- Destination weather: the latest METAR/TAF of the selected flight's destination.
Status labels
| ON ROUTE | Inside the corridor. |
| CAUTION | More than half of the tolerance away, or a deviation not yet confirmed. |
| OFF ROUTE | Outside the tolerance in 3 readings in a row (about 1 minute). Comes back only after 2 clean readings below 80% of the tolerance. |
| ESTIMATED | No new position for over 1 minute; the aircraft keeps moving on the map along its last track and speed (up to 10 min). |
| NO SIGNAL | No position for more than 10 minutes (usually a coverage gap). |
| WAITING | Before departure; the aircraft is searched for from 60 min before the planned departure. |
| NOT IDENTIFIED | 15 min after the planned departure with no matching aircraft. Check the callsign. |
| BUILDING ROUTE | The worker is building the route from airac.net. |
| ROUTE ERROR | A fix or airway was not found. Fix it in Edit flight. |
| LANDED | On the ground near the destination and slow; monitoring is closed. |
The map
- Zoom with the mouse wheel or pinch; drag to move. Once you move it, the map stops re-centring by itself.
- S / M / L or the handle below the map change its size (remembered by the browser).
- Fit all flights frames every monitored flight; Follow selected keeps the selected one in view.
- Selected flight: dashed planned route with fix names and a shaded corridor at the real tolerance width. Purple dotted lines are the possible SIDs/STARs from airac.net (reference only, no alerts).
- Airport circles change colour with the weather (yellow caution, red critical).
Alerts
- They appear in the Alerts panel and as pop-ups: off route / back on route, signal lost / recovered, aircraft not identified, route errors, METAR and NOTAM at airports you use.
- Climb-out (SID) and arrival (STAR) do not trigger lateral alerts: up to 60 NM from the origin on the first leg and 80 NM from the destination on the last leg, because the runway in use and ATC vectors change the real path.
- Ack marks an alert as seen; Clear display hides the current ones from the panel. Nothing is deleted from the history.
- The panel only shows alerts of flights currently monitored, plus METAR/NOTAM alerts from the last 6 hours.
METAR, TAF and NOTAM
- METAR/TAF Alert shows the airports of active flights and the ones you watch (Watch another aerodrome). Highlighted groups (BKN007, TS, FG…) are the reasons for the alert.
- Criteria: visibility below 5000 m (critical below 1000 m), ceiling below 1500 ft (critical below 500 ft), RVR below 800 m, gust 25 kt or more, thunderstorm/CB. A METAR older than 75 min is never shown as normal.
- Dismiss hides a card until a new METAR or TAF arrives; Unwatch stops watching an extra airport.
- NOTAM Alert lists NOTAMs from AISWEB (runway closed = critical).
Editing, removing and slots
- Select a flight and click Edit flight: the form opens filled in; change and Save changes. Changing the callsign means another aircraft (it is identified again).
- Remove flight stops monitoring it.
- Up to 5 flights are monitored at the same time.
Admin (administrators only)
- Team: who has access in your company, role and last sign-in. Online now: who has the site open.
- Usage: flight-hours tracked, free ADS-B coverage, and how many lookups a paid ADS-B source would have to answer. Download CSV exports it for Excel.
Limits and data sources
- ADS-B comes from community receiver networks. Where there are few receivers (parts of inland Brazil, oceans), positions may be delayed or missing; this is a coverage limit, not an error.
- Times are UTC. Levels are pressure altitude from the transponder.
Data sources: ADS-B positions from the community networks adsb.lol (data under the ODbL), adsb.fi and airplanes.live; routes, fixes, airways and procedures from airac.net; METAR/TAF from REDEMET (DECEA) or NOAA Aviation Weather; NOTAM from AISWEB (DECEA); map © OpenStreetMap contributors.