How to Set Up National Aerial Firefighting Centre (NAFC) : Australia API

Sharing your Spidertracks tracking and event data with NAFC can be done by following these instructions.

1. Select the Admin.

2. Select the Organisation.

3. Click AFF API.

4. Select the aircraft that you would like to be sharing data to NAFC.

5. From the list of Public AFF Consumers, select Australia: NAFC (1 - 2 minute position reporting interval).

6. Select Save to save for one aircraft and click Apply to All to make the change for all aircraft.

Next Steps

The next step is to create an account with TracPlus, which then will pass it to NAFC's platform.

1. Contact [e-mail] and let them know that you are a Spidertracks user and you want to share your tracking data with them, for the NAFC's platform.

2. Once you have an account and your device is activated in their system you will need to configure the device in TracPlus to send data to NAFC.

3. To do this please visit http://my.tracplus.com and log in with your TracPlus username and password.

A. Click on User Groups on the list on the left.

B. Select AFAMS from the left-hand menu.

C. If you don’t see a green tick next to AFAMS click the ‘Add this group to my list of friends’ button.

D. Click on 'Asset Sharing' and select your Aircraft registration/tail number from the list. Make sure that you enable the following permissions:

a. View Current Track Data.
b. View Historical Track Data.

For help contact:

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If you have done all these steps and want to ensure that your tracking information is showing on the NAFC's platform, please visit the following link where you will find detailed instructions attached in the PDF attached to this article on how to confirm this: Spidertracks - NAFC confirmation