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feat(plugins): decode the Southwest H1 position report - #554
Decodes the H1 position report that Southwest 737s send in the climb. The ARINC 702 helper already picked it up, but it read it with the short variant's field positions. This report has an extra field after the next waypoint, so everything after it was shifted: the distance to the next waypoint was read as the ETA, a time was read as a waypoint name, and the temperature came out as NaN. In /PR, the cruise altitude and the temperature at cruise altitude came out as a second altitude and a second outside air temperature.
This is separate from #553 and is based on master. The change is in Arinc702Helper rather than in a new plugin, because the wildcard arinc-702 plugin runs before any label plugin and decodes these first.
Aircraft Route: DILNE@02:15:07 > TVTRN@YYYY-MM-02T08:00:00 > 022414
Outside Air Temperature (C): NaN degrees
Altitude: 34000 feet
Outside Air Temperature (C): -51 degrees
After:
Altitude: 15800 feet
Aircraft Route: DILNE@02:15:07 > TVTRN@02:24:14 > ROD
Distance to Next Waypoint: 56 nm
Outside Air Temperature (C): -8 degrees
Wind: 276 degrees at 31 knots
True Airspeed: 366 knots
Indicated Airspeed: 290 knots
Gross Weight: 159400 pounds
Fuel On Board: 37000
Origin: KPIT
Destination: KLAS
Fuel at Destination: 18200
Estimated Time of Arrival: 06:27:59
Distance to Destination: 1633 nm
Cruise Altitude: 34000 feet
Cruise Temperature (C): -51 degrees
Transition Altitude: 18000 feet
Fields
The report is recognised by its 21 comma fields before the first /. Every 21-field POS report in about 1.15 million messages (airframes.io pulls and a local VDL2 receiver) came from a Southwest 737, 3,520 reports from 80 tails between 2025-11 and 2026-10. The checks below ran on all of them. Fields are numbered from 1 here; the code comments count from 0.
Field
Meaning
Check
1-5
position, last waypoint, time over it, altitude (hundreds of feet), next waypoint
same as the short variant
6
distance to the next waypoint, nm
time to the next waypoint × true airspeed agrees on 97.1%
7-10
ETA at the next waypoint, the waypoint after, outside air temperature, wind
same as the short variant, one field later
11
true airspeed
the true airspeed worked out from field 12, the altitude and the temperature is within 5 kt on 95.1%
12
indicated airspeed
13
gross weight, hundreds of lb
gross weight less fuel stays under each 737 type's maximum zero fuel weight, and gross weight under its maximum takeoff weight
14
fuel on board, hundreds of lb
15-16
origin, destination
17
destination runway
same as the runway in the route on 1,170 of 1,170; blank on all 1,870 whose route has none
18
fuel at destination, hundreds of lb
never more than fuel on board; the burn comes to 10.5 to 12.1 lb a nm (median by type, the MAX lowest)
19
ETA at destination
20
distance to destination, nm
21
unknown, always 73
left in the remaining text
/PR (12 fields): 1 and 4 are the gross weight and fuel on board again (the same on 3,449 of 3,450, so not shown twice); 3 is the cruise altitude; 9 is the temperature at cruise altitude (ISA +4 °C median at field 3); 10 is the transition altitude: 180 from US airports, 185 only from Cancún, where it is 18,500 ft (15 of 15), 170 only from Punta Cana (4 of 4). The rest stays in the remaining text: field 2 is fixed by type (222 on the -700, 262 on the -800, 238 on the MAX) but its meaning is unknown, field 5 is always blank, fields 6 and 7 vary, field 8 is a wind (left out because it would overwrite the present wind), and fields 11 and 12 are always P0.
Fields can be blank (on a vectors leg there is no distance or ETA to the next waypoint; a report sent on the ground has no wind or gross weight). A blank field is skipped. A field that doesn't match its pattern goes to the remaining text.
Not changed here
The route parser keeps the en route waypoints on the destination when the route has no departure procedure (AA:KLAS..TVTRN..ROD... becomes the destination), and each :F: segment replaces the route. This affects other airlines too, and an existing test expects the current output, so it is left for a separate change.
Testing
Four tests in Label_H1_POS.test.ts from real reports: the full layout, a destination runway, a vectors leg with blank fields, and a report sent on the ground.
npm test: 594 passed, 8 skipped. tsc --noEmit: 235 errors, the same as master. Prettier passes.
master against this branch over 1,157,340 messages: only the 3,156 Southwest position reports change (partial before and after, more fields decoded), and nothing decodes less.
Running on a local ACARS Hub (VDL2) since 2026-10-29.
Position reports in Southwest’s 21-field format are now recognized and decoded, including available position, route, runway, performance, fuel, and aircraft details.
Gross weight, cruise altitude, cruise temperature, and transition altitude are now displayed as distinct flight-plan and performance details.
Improvements
Blank or unrecognized report fields no longer prevent other available details from being displayed.
Overlapping performance values are not repeated when already decoded.
Southwest 737s send a POS report with 21 fields: the short variant's
fields with the distance to the next waypoint added after the next
waypoint, then true and indicated airspeed, gross weight, fuel on board,
origin, destination, destination runway, fuel at destination, ETA and
distance to destination. Its /PR carries the cruise altitude, the
temperature at cruise altitude and the transition altitude.
The ARINC 702 helper read these by the short variant's positions, so
everything after the next waypoint was shifted (the distance became the
ETA), and /PR's cruise altitude and temperature came out as a second
altitude and outside air temperature.
Tested on 3,520 reports from 80 tails, 2025-11 to 2026-10.
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The decoder now routes 21-field position reports to a Southwest-specific decoder and decodes /PR fields by position. Tests cover Southwest report variants and update expected performance values and formatted items across H1 message types.
processPerformanceData decodes gross weight, cruise altitude, fuel, cruise temperature, and transition altitude by field position. Tests check these fields and update formatted-item expectations across H1 message types.
Route and decode Southwest position reports lib/utils/arinc_702_helper.ts, lib/plugins/Label_H1_POS.test.ts
processPosition routes 21-field reports to processSouthwestPosition. The decoder formats recognized fields and collects invalid or unhandled values. Tests cover populated reports, optional fields, blank values, and incomplete /PR data.
This change adds decoding for Southwest position reports and /PR performance fields. The supplied evidence shows no concrete defect that would block merging.
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Any other field count goes to the remaining text instead of being read
by position. All 3,450 Southwest /PR sections seen have 12 fields.
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The Southwest /PR layout is not airline-specific: the fields mean the same
in every /PR on disk (6,201 reports from WN, AS, AA, B6, BA and AC with 12,
18 and 19 fields), so processPerformanceData now decodes them for all:
- 0 gross weight (hundreds of pounds)
- 2 cruise altitude (hundreds of feet): one value for the whole flight on
85-100% of each airline's flights, and sent in a flight plan before
departure (FPN TNCA-TNCB: 110)
- 3 fuel on board: not shown again when the report already gave it, and
otherwise left unknown, since /DT shows another figure as fuel on board
- 8 temperature at cruise altitude: M7 with that 110 (ISA at 11,000 feet)
while the aircraft was on the ground
- 9 transition altitude of the departure: 180 from US airports, 185 from
Mexico, 60 from London, 50 from Berlin, 30 from Amsterdam and Eindhoven
Fields 2 and 8 were shown as Altitude and Outside Air Temperature, which
replaced a position report's own values (POS variant 10: 17,400 feet
became 37,000). The Southwest-only branch and its 12-field rule go away.
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Summary
Decodes the H1 position report that Southwest 737s send in the climb. The ARINC 702 helper already picked it up, but it read it with the short variant's field positions. This report has an extra field after the next waypoint, so everything after it was shifted: the distance to the next waypoint was read as the ETA, a time was read as a waypoint name, and the temperature came out as
NaN. In/PR, the cruise altitude and the temperature at cruise altitude came out as a second altitude and a second outside air temperature.This is separate from #553 and is based on master. The change is in
Arinc702Helperrather than in a new plugin, because the wildcardarinc-702plugin runs before any label plugin and decodes these first.Example (WN1793, KPIT to KLAS):
Before:
After:
Fields
The report is recognised by its 21 comma fields before the first
/. Every 21-field POS report in about 1.15 million messages (airframes.io pulls and a local VDL2 receiver) came from a Southwest 737, 3,520 reports from 80 tails between 2025-11 and 2026-10. The checks below ran on all of them. Fields are numbered from 1 here; the code comments count from 0.73/PR(12 fields): 1 and 4 are the gross weight and fuel on board again (the same on 3,449 of 3,450, so not shown twice); 3 is the cruise altitude; 9 is the temperature at cruise altitude (ISA +4 °C median at field 3); 10 is the transition altitude: 180 from US airports, 185 only from Cancún, where it is 18,500 ft (15 of 15), 170 only from Punta Cana (4 of 4). The rest stays in the remaining text: field 2 is fixed by type (222 on the -700, 262 on the -800, 238 on the MAX) but its meaning is unknown, field 5 is always blank, fields 6 and 7 vary, field 8 is a wind (left out because it would overwrite the present wind), and fields 11 and 12 are alwaysP0.Fields can be blank (on a vectors leg there is no distance or ETA to the next waypoint; a report sent on the ground has no wind or gross weight). A blank field is skipped. A field that doesn't match its pattern goes to the remaining text.
Not changed here
The route parser keeps the en route waypoints on the destination when the route has no departure procedure (
AA:KLAS..TVTRN..ROD...becomes the destination), and each:F:segment replaces the route. This affects other airlines too, and an existing test expects the current output, so it is left for a separate change.Testing
Label_H1_POS.test.tsfrom real reports: the full layout, a destination runway, a vectors leg with blank fields, and a report sent on the ground.npm test: 594 passed, 8 skipped.tsc --noEmit: 235 errors, the same as master. Prettier passes.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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