Overhead Bots

We just updated our site with flight summaries for Jan, Feb and March. The site has data for LAPD, LA FD, and Minnesota DPS, and more Let us know in the comments which agencies you want us to add to our bots or our site policeoverhead.github.io/ @policeoverhead @ffoverhead

We're happy to announce the addition of a new bot to our family. Meet @newsoverhead: tracking news helicopters over LA. Give us suggestions of more cities to add. Idea courtesy of @marcel_cameraop!

Our bots experienced an unexpected downtime yesterday. The issue appears to be resolved now @policeoverhead @fedsoverhead @ffoverhead

We have recently experienced some technical difficulties with our Bots. We believe they are fixed now @policeoverhead @ffoverhead @fedsoverhead

Our bots were down for the past 9 hours due to an unexpected technical issue. They are restored now @policeoverhead @fedsoverhead @ffoverhead

We believe the issue has been resolved @policeoverhead @fedsoverhead @ffoverhead

Our bots have been down since approximately 2020-12-20 16:48 UTC due to a technical issue. We will tweet again when the bots are back up @policeoverhead @fedsoverhead @ffoverhead

We have added tracking for additional @CALFIRE_PIO aircraft on our @ffoverhead bot to help monitor the incidents in Southern California

We've noticed an issue where some maps appear blank like this. It may be due to missing GPS data for the planes at the time of tweet. We're looking into it and will update when it's fixed.

@fedsoverhead is currently tracking around 200 aircraft from these agencies: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives FBI US Air Force DEA United States Department of Justice Customs & Border Protection Department of Homeland Security

@ffoverhead is currently tracking ~50 aircraft across 7 agencies: LAFD LA County Fire Colorado Fire Prevention and Control Orange County Fire Authority Santa Barbara County Fire Department CalFire Venutra County Fire Department We expect to continue to expand these

@policeoverhead is currently tracking over 230 aircraft from more than 50 different agencies: Alameda County Sheriff Atlanta Police Baltimore County Police Baltimore Police California Highway Patrol Chicago Police (incl Metra) Clackamas County Sheriff (1/4)

We currently have three bots @policeoverhead Tweets about US state and local police aircraft @ffoverhead Tweets about US firefighting aircraft @fedsoverhead Tweets about US federal aircraft operating in and around the US Updates and announcements will be posted on this account