Iridium-Based Flight Tracker Offers Added Safety And Utility

It's a novel and intriguing program... Nearly real-time tracking for your aircraft... available 24/7 to those who need to know where you are... in good times and bad.

Spidertracks sends your location in real-time from the spider in your aircraft through the Iridium satellite network, and displays the track of your flight on the Aviator website. Should the worst happen and you have an accident, Spidertracks will automatically send out SOS alerts to the people you have allowed/selected.

The principle behind Spidertracks is simple... Spidertracks knows the location of your aircraft or vehicle, its speed, altitude and heading, based on its GPS coordinates. A portable 'spider' in the aircraft receives and transmits the location information via the Iridium Satellite Network in real-time.

The 66 Iridium Satellites transmit the location information back to the Iridium servers on the ground. The position information is sent from Iridium to Spidertracks' servers in the United States. The data is then translated into a track of the flight online.

And if an accident occurs, Spidertracks will automatically send SOS alerts to the pilot's contacts within minutes.

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