Skills pipeworx-flights

Live aircraft tracking — flights in a geographic area, individual aircraft by transponder, and airport arrivals/departures via OpenSky Network

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/openclaw/skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openclaw/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/b-gutman/pipeworx-flights" ~/.claude/skills/clawdbot-skills-pipeworx-flights && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/b-gutman/pipeworx-flights/SKILL.md

source content

Flight Tracking (OpenSky Network)

Real-time flight data from the OpenSky Network. Track aircraft by transponder address, query all flights within a geographic bounding box, or pull arrival and departure lists for any airport. Free and open, no API key needed.

Tools

Tool	Description
`get_flights_in_area`	All aircraft currently in a lat/lon bounding box
`get_aircraft`	Track a specific aircraft by ICAO24 hex address (e.g., "a0b1c2")
`get_arrivals`	Recent arrivals at an airport by ICAO code (e.g., "KLAX") within a time range
`get_departures`	Recent departures from an airport by ICAO code within a time range

When to use

"What planes are flying over Manhattan right now?" — define a bounding box around NYC
Tracking a specific flight by its transponder code
Building an airport dashboard showing recent arrivals and departures
Aviation research or ADS-B data analysis

Example: flights over London

curl -s -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/flights/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_flights_in_area","arguments":{"lamin":51.3,"lomin":-0.5,"lamax":51.7,"lomax":0.3}}}'

Returns ICAO24 address, callsign, origin country, altitude, velocity, heading, and position for each aircraft.

MCP config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-flights": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote@latest", "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/flights/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Notes

Time ranges for arrivals/departures use Unix timestamps and are limited to 7-day windows
The API updates aircraft positions roughly every 10 seconds
Anonymous access is rate-limited; data may be slightly delayed