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Happy Saturday Drama Fans!

This week, thanks to our most awesome army of sky drama farmers, we've added coverage in:

Brussels, Belgium
Taiwan
Danielson, CT, USA

and, what is perhaps our favorite place name we didn't know existed until it popped up:

Liberal, KS, USA

Anywho, if you'd like to help feed the drama machine and harvest AFT LAV happenings for all humankind, check out https://acarsdrama.com for info on how you can achieve the prestigious rank of SKY DRAMA FARMER using cheap hardware and open source software.

#avgeek #acars #vdlm2

Air to Ground Message:

IF WE SAY PRETTY, PLEASE IS THERE A CHANCE TO GET A GATE, THIS EVENING, PRETTY PLEASE

Area: Virginia, USA
Type: Airbus A321neo
A: #a3f56fe434f
F: #f351bd64e19

#acars #vdlm2

Special ACARS Drama Announcement:

We just wanted to take a moment, in light of recent news regarding Spirit Airlines, to pass on our best wishes to all 17,000 employees of the airline who are facing uncertainty this morning. That's a horrible thing for anyone to deal with and we hope you all find new opportunities soon.

Spirit provided plenty of ACARS Drama over the last couple of years, so, as a tribute, we decided to dive into the Archives and pick out our top 10 favorite Sprit Airlines ACARS Messages.

#avgeek #acars #acarsdrama

Air to Ground Message:

NEED AN ENGINEER PLS HAVE MULTIPLE AIRPODS AND PHONES STUCK IN SEATS

Area: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Type: Boeing 777-200
A: #a456b8e16e4
F: #f2163fe98a1

#acars #vdlm2

Air to Ground Message:

AS OF NOW WE ARE NOT OVERWEIGHT.

Area: Austin, TX, USA
Type: Embraer 175 (Enhanced Wing)
A: #a412d0b52b3
F: #f57f451ffb1

#acars #vdlm2

Air to Ground Message:

AFTERNOON. CABIN CREW REPORTING A KNOCKING NOISE COMING FROM DOOR 1R. ANY IDEA WHAT IT COULD BE. EVERYTHING ELSE NORMAL. THEY WILL RECORD SOUND. CHEERS.

Area: Portsmouth, UK
Type: Airbus A320
A: #a2eb4753c3b
F: #f4eed0084cb

#acars #vdlm2

Air to Ground Message:

ANY CHANCE YOU HAVE THE FINAL SCORE ON NOR VS ENG

Area: Valparaiso, IN, USA
Type: Boeing 777-300ER
A: #a98f828c28c
F: #fdcdb386609

#acars #vdlm2

Happy Saturday ACARS Fans!

This week, thanks to our wonderful army of Sky Drama Farmers, we added extra coverage in:

Gwangju, South Korea

Thanks to everyone who feeds us!

Interested in sky farming? check out: https://acarsdrama.com#feed for more info on this noble profession.

❤️ ACARS Drama & want to help keep the project running? The best way to support us is to become a Jumpseat member

Sign up @ https://jumpseat.acarsdrama.com

As a thanks for your support, you get:

Access to 90% more messages than get posted
Tail & Flight # lookups
Flight Playback
REST API Access
ACARS Insights
MOAR

As always, thanks for your support. The next time you are on a flight remember the goal of this project is to show you the heroic, unseen work that goes into every flight.

Be nice to your flight attendants and crews, because you never know when they'll be stepping up to help you on your worst day.

#avgeek #acars #vdlm2 #sdr

Air to Ground Message:

MORE FUEL ON THE NEXT LEG PLEASE

Area: Virginia, USA
Type: Bombardier CRJ700
A: #a5ec743c348
F: #f8caa93da3c

#acars #vdlm2

Happy Saturday Drama Fans, and a special happy 4th to all who celebrate!

This week, thanks to our wonderful army of Sky Drama Farmers, we've added coverage in:

Raleigh, NC, USA
Louisville, KY, USA
Crawley, UK

AND NEW COUNTRY ALERT: Liberec, Czechia

https://acarsdrama.com#feed = learn about sky farming!

Sky Drama Farmers, as a thanks for their feeds, get free access to Jumpseat, which allows them to dive into all the data behind the scenes.

https://jumpseat.acarsdrama.com

Becoming a Jumpseat member is a great way to show some ❤️ to ACARS Drama - and get access to 1.1 million messages in our archive!

Thanks to everyone who supports, enjoys, or is working hard on a plane, at an airport, in a control tower - to keep folks moving, especially if you are doing so over a holiday weekend!

Stay safe, have fun. Don't blow off your fingers - you need them for ACARS'ing!

#acars #vdlm2 #avgeek

Air to Ground Message:

DISREGARD. HEADING TO KJFK NOW LOL.

Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Type: Boeing 737 MAX 8
A: #af05a47980e
F: #f6cc885adec

#acars #vdlm2

Air to Ground Message:

WHY DONT FOLKS PRONOUNCE THE MEOW IN HOMEOWNER Q

Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Type: Airbus A220-300
A: #a52c6fd2e8c
F: #f242de3d091

#acars #vdlm2

Hey #avgeeks: It's gonna be a busy few days in the skies with OSH26 & the World Cup Final.

To celebrate: we're giving you the chance to experience it through our Jumpseat membership for FREE!

Sign up today & use promo code REDCOAT, to get 1 month of Jumpseat access on us!

https://jumpseat.acarsdrama.com

This promo runs through July 24th 2026, and you can cancel any time before the end of the free month.

Jumpseat gives you access to our full message archive of over 1.1 million messages, a REST API, stats and insights, a daily/weekly digest and more!

Enjoy!

#avgeek #acars #acarsdrama

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Happy Saturday Sky Drama Fans!

This week, thanks to our army of Sky Drama farmers, we added coverage in:

Plettenberg, Germany
Washington, DC, USA
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Belle Plaine, IA, USA
Orlando, FL, USA

Thank you to you all!

Interested in feeding us? https://acarsdrama.com#feed

Love yourself some ACARS Drama & want to help keep this accidental hobby turned data firehouse & industry leading vomit & intoxication reporting engine online?

Become a Jumpseat member: https://jumpseat.acarsdrama.com

It's the best way to show us the love, and you get premium features to boot!

Thanks to everyone who enjoys the feeds, the project, and the community.

And of course, massive thanks to everyone working to keep us moving through the skies safely, despite all the inherent messiness of humanity!

Have a great week, and take care of each other!

#avgeek #acarsdrama #acars #avgeeks

Air to Ground Message:

IT LOOKS MENACING AND QUITE BEEFY

Area: Valparaiso, IN, USA
Type: Embraer 175 (Enhanced Wing)
A: #a7eb652c23e
F: #f52019834bb

#acars #vdlm2

Super exciting to see more Jumpseat members using the ACARS Drama REST API to build their own projects with our data!

If you are a Jumpseat member doing this, please feel free to share your work with us.

Interested in becoming a member?

https://jumpseat.acarsdrama.com/

#acars #avgeek

Love ACARS Drama?

Go deeper, with Jumpseat - our premium offering.

Jumpseat gives you access to a wide selection of tools to interact with our data, including a dashboard to search insights, a powerful search engine and a REST API.

Whats more, Jumpseat membership funds the continued operation and development of ACARS Drama!

Check it out @ https://jumpseat.acarsdrama.com

#avgeek #acars #acarsdrama

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It's Saturday Drama Fans!

This week, thanks to the army of Sky Drama Farmers pointing their antennas aloft & NOT BROADCASTING A FAKE WIRELESS NETWORK, coverage expanded in:

Bournemouth, UK
Rheinfelden, Germany
Leipzig, Germany
Basel, Switzerland
Orlando, FL, USA
Ingolstadt, Germany
Chicago, IL, USA

If you'd like to contribute to ACARS Drama, remember the preferred way is to not be part of the drama. Crews have enough going on as it is.

Become a sky drama farmer instead: https://acarsdrama.com#feed

OR become a Jumpseat member and show your support for the project:

https://jumpseat.acarsdrama.com

Thanks to all who enjoy our little bot, and unintentional primary news source.

Thanks to all the crews & folks behind the scenes for their heroic efforts in getting us from A to B safely, despite all the, oftentimes literal, crap.

Stay safe, be nice to each other & don't be silly buggers.

#avgeek #acars #acarsdrama

Happy Saturday Drama Fans!

This week, thanks to our sky drama farmer volunteers, we added coverage in:

Hoffman, NC, USA
Washington DC, USA
Wichita, KS, USA

Thanks to all the 450ish sky drama farmers, without your overhead electromagnetic harvesting - none of this would be possible!

Love ACARS Drama? Three things you can do today to express that love:

Share this post so others know about us.

Become a jumpseat member: https://jumpseat.acarsdrama.com

Become a sky drama farmer: https://acarsdrama.com#feed

Sky Drama Farmers get free Jumpseat membership btw!

Have a great week, stay safe, be nice to one another - and especially be nice to other people on planes, flight crews, people at the airport, and everyone working through the drama to get you where you need to be!

Oh, and no, we aren’t on Instagram.

#avgeek #acars #sdr #vdlm2 #benice

Air to Ground Message:

SOOOOOOOOO IT FAILED ALL 3 TIMES WHAT R WE LOOKING AT SB FFH

Area: Madison, WI, USA
A: #a4238bde3cd
F: #f43624a21d5

#acars #vdlm2

It's Saturday Drama Fans! This week, thanks to wonderful sky drama farmers, we added/expanded coverage in:

Fort Meyers, FL, USA
Abridge, UK
Cleveland, OH, USA
Kitchener, ON, Canada
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Prague, Czechia
New York City, NY, USA
Des Moines, IA, USA
Washington DC, USA
Kassel, Germany

Interested in becoming a sky drama farmer? Check out https://acarsdrama.com#feed for our recs on the hardware and software you need to partake in this most noble of activities!

Sky Drama Farmers get FREE Jumpseat membership as a thanks for contributing to the Drama Engine.

What's a Jumpseat Membership?

It's the best way to support ACARS Drama - sign up at jumpseat.acarsdrama.com, you'll gain access to our complete dataset, including powerful search tools, a REST API for your own projects and other cool stuff.

Jumpseat Memberships directly fund our project!

Thanks to everyone who enjoys and contributes to our project!

#avgeek #acars

Air to Ground Message:

HI. SOMEBODY VOMITTED ALL OVER THE L2 LAV. A FOR EFFORT - THEY COVERED EVERY INCH OF IT. IF THERE WERE PUKING OLYMPICS THIS WOULD BE A GOLD MEDAL FOR SURE. THAT SAID WE NEED THE GOLD MEDALLIST CLEANERS IN LIR TO DAL WITH THAT. THANKS.

Area: Cayman Islands
Type: Boeing 737 MAX 8
A: #a8c52c77d7e
F: #f324e1409d3

#acars #vdlm2