Live Flights

Overview

A live flight is a flight with the SkyPath app or SDK running on the iPad. When the device records data, the live location is periodically tracked and sent to the server. The live flight report consists of the aircraft details, coordinates, and other data, see LiveFlight SDK API docs for more details.

Setup

By default, the live flight data fetch is disabled in the DataQuery.types. You can change it at any time.

SkyPath.shared.dataQuery.types.set(type: .liveFlights, enabled: true)

When enabled, live flights will be fetched from the server based on the SkyPath.dataUpdateFrequency time interval. Fetched data is not stored on disk and will not be available offline. Only flights that reported location during the last 3 minutes will be fetched and returned by the SDK.

When disabled, live flights will not be fetched from the server and will be removed when expire based on the time-to-expire interval of 3 minutes.

Query

See Query Data for the general query data approach details.

To query live flights you will need:

• LiveFlightQuery for a configuration
• SkyPath.liveFlights(with:) function to query the data
• LiveFlight to process the result items

Example of how to query the live flights data:

let query = LiveFlightQuery(
    altRange: altRange,
    resultOptions: .items,
    polygon: corridor)
do {
    let result = try SkyPath.shared.liveFlights(with: query).get()
    let items = result.items
    // Show items on the map
} catch {
    print(error)
}