Block Times - beta

Spire has leveraged terrestrial and satellite ADS-B tracking data from the positional Tracking Stream API to determine accurate aircraft movements around a given airport.

This newest add-on Flight Report feature uses a sophisticated in-house algorithm to pinpoint aircraft movements into and out of defined polygons, representing runways, gates and parking positions. This has taken Spire flight analytics up to a whole new level, through the calculation and flagging of ON and OFF block times for deeper insights into flight operations.

Data Contents

Field	Type	Description	Example
off_block_time	timestamp	Time at leaving the parking position	2023-10-02 11:15:08.00 UTC
off_block_ramp_name	string	Ramp (parking position) name detected at off-block	B14
off_block_ramp_is_a_gate	boolean	True if the aircraft off-blocked close by a Terminal with a gate	True
off_block_apron_name	string	Apron name at off-block	APRON E
off_block_terminal_name	string	Terminal name at off-block	T4
is_off_block_estimated	boolean	True if off_block_time is estimated based on average taxing time otherwise False	False
takeoff_runway	string	Runway designator detected at takeoff	07L/25R
landing_runway	string	Runway designator detected at landing	9/27
on_block_time	timestamp	Timestamp when arriving at parking position	2023-10-03 01:24:42.00 UTC
on_block_ramp_name	string	Ramp (parking position) name detected at off-block	D13
on_block_ramp_is_a_gate	boolean	True if the aircraft on-blocked close by a Terminal with a gate	False
on_block_apron_name	string	Apron name at on-block	APRON A
on_block_terminal_name	string	Terminal name at on-block	T2
is_on_block_estimated	boolean	True if on_block_time is estimated based on average taxing time otherwise False	False

Activation

The above fields could represent huge value for you or your customer's operational efficiency, financial management, regulatory compliance and more.

If you are interested in these add-on data fields for the Flight Report, please contact the Spire Aviation team.