What's flying above you, wherever you are
Since today, AI assistants can ask Skydex about aircraft and ships through our MCP server. "What is flying over Hamburg right now" was easy from the start: the assistant knows where Hamburg is. "What is flying above me" was not, because the assistant doesn't know where you are, and at home with a Skydex token it could only look over the home city in your profile. On a trip that answer is about the wrong sky.
How it works now
Ask "what's flying above me?" and the assistant can call locate_me. You get a link like skydex.online/here/k7q…. Open it on the phone you have with you and tap Share my location; the browser asks for permission once. The page tells you it's done and shows the sky above you straight away. Go back to the chat and say so, and the assistant calls above_here and answers with the aircraft around you: "Eurowings A319, 3 km north-east, 1,900 ft and climbing".
If you'd rather not share a precise position, the page offers the city from your internet address instead. The answer is then about your city, and it says so.
What we keep, and for how long
The assistant never gets your coordinates. It gets the aircraft around you with their distance and direction from you, and the name of the nearest city. Skydex holds the location in memory for about an hour so the assistant can ask again while you talk, then drops it; a deploy drops it sooner. Nothing is written to our database, and our logs record only that a location was shared and how precise it was. The link works for 15 minutes before it's used and belongs to one conversation.
Where there is no answer
Skydex hears aircraft where volunteers run receivers. If the list comes back empty, it can mean the sky is quiet or that nobody near you feeds us yet; a wider radius usually tells which. In the second case the page links to the feeder guide: a receiver on your roof fills that gap for everyone.
The page also has a Fly here in Skydex button that starts the game over the place you're standing, so you can look for the same aircraft from the air.