Yevgen`s official homepage
Yevgen Somochkin
"ΞΣΣΘ"
CTO ESSO.DEV
Building the Future of AI, Automation & Web3 | Full-stack & DevOps Architect | Scalable, Data-driven Web & Mobile Apps
Hamburg, Germany
A flight sim where the traffic is real
Open a browser tab and you are over the real Earth: real terrain, real photogrammetry where it exists, real weather for that city, real sunrise. The aircraft around you are not spawned — they are the ones actually in the air, decoded from ADS-B seconds ago. So are the ships below, from AIS.
Three things run at the same time, and each one feeds the next: you fly it, you collect the real aircraft you catch overhead, and the data itself comes from a feeder network we operate.
There is an older Skydex — a React Native "Pokédex for planes" I started in 2025 and put on ice. This is the rebuild: same idea, but the sky is a place you fly through rather than a list you scroll, and the data comes from a network we operate instead of someone's API quota.
Freestyle FPV drones and a gull, six-degree-of-freedom flight model, acro and angle modes, gamepad and RC transmitter support with a calibration wizard, and 19 hand-built race tracks with ghost replays and leaderboards. Also playable in VR on Quest through WebXR.
skydex.online/races →Every real aircraft you catch overhead becomes a card — six rarity tiers, fifteen ranks, monthly seasons, achievements, an inbox that remembers why you got what you got. Types, airlines and manufacturers get their own canonical pages, so a catch turns into a permanent, indexable page about a real machine. Around 1,800 public URLs; the game speaks five languages.
skydex.online/aircraft-types →The aircraft data is ours: Skydex runs its own ADS-B aggregation network. Volunteers point a receiver at it, get a station page with uptime, range and the rarest aircraft they heard, and a badge in the game. Non-exclusive by design — keep feeding every other network at the same time.
feed.skydex.online/ →Multiplayer with voice on real airband frequencies over a WebRTC mesh, user-run radio stations with their own studio, a flying-spots map built from OpenStreetMap, and a self-hosted observability stack. The whole thing lives on one small VPS and deploys itself from master.
