I need to set up Automated Flight Following (AFF / API)

AFF and APIs can be set up in your account under management settings.

What is AFF?

AFF is Automated Flight Following and it allows you to send your tracking data through to third parties, such as the US Forest Service, the United Nations World Food Program, Lockheed Martin Flight Services Surveillance-Enhanced Search & Rescue, the National Aerial Fire Centre in Australia and many more. Some third parties require specific position reporting rates and your Spider may need to have the settings updated, this may also mean your Spidertracks charges may increase.

How to set up the AFF feed

1. Visit app.spidertracks.io  and log in with your email and password, then click on the 'Settings' icon.

2. Select the organisation that you would like to set up an AFF  feed.

3. Select AFF/API in the menu

4. Select the aircraft you would like to add to the AFF/API feed 

5. Select the public or private AFF consumer you would like to use

6. If you would like to apply the settings to all the Aircraft in your account, click 'Apply to All'

7. Click Save

8. To finish the setup, please send through the following details to the API provider:

• Aircraft registration
• The Spider IMEI

The IMEI can be found at the bottom of the Aircraft Settings page, which is a 15 digit number which will look like this 300234013726430.

Who can pull data from Spidertracks?

We also have an API available so third-party consumers can retrieve raw data from our system.

Third party consumers can configure either a Public or a Private data service to pull the raw data. If you are set up as a Public consumer Spidertracks' customers can elect you to pull their tracking data into your system.

The attached document is a comprehensive guide to assist you through all aspects of the integration process. Please note that there may be fees associated with pulling data from the Spidertracks API.