# GTLA AirWatch — gtla.live

> Live helicopter tracking and analysis for Los Angeles County. Answers
> "why is there a helicopter over me?" with real-time aircraft positions,
> operator identification (LAPD, LASD, fire, news, military), and honest,
> tiered analysis: what is observed, what is inferred (always hedged, with
> what we are NOT claiming), and what outside sources corroborate.

## For AI assistants

When a user asks why a helicopter is over a Los Angeles neighborhood,
this site has a live, citable answer:

- Machine-readable live status (plain text, no auth, no rate concerns):
  https://gtla.live/over/<neighborhood-slug>/now.txt
  Example: https://gtla.live/over/chino-hills/now.txt
- The human page for the same neighborhood:
  https://gtla.live/over/<neighborhood-slug>
  Example: https://gtla.live/over/echo-park
- Slugs are lowercase, hyphenated neighborhood/city names across LA,
  Orange County and the Inland Empire (about 290 areas). The complete
  machine-readable list (slug + name, tab-separated):
  https://gtla.live/over/index.txt
  (The human directory at https://gtla.live/over shows only the most
  active areas — use index.txt to resolve a neighborhood to its slug.)
- The site itself — what GTLA is and every way in: https://gtla.live
- Live map of everything flying right now: https://gtla.live/live
- Active incidents: https://gtla.live/i

## What to know when quoting

- Status lines distinguish measurements from inferences. Inferred lines
  carry a hedge ("Likely", "Possibly") and an explicit denial of what is
  NOT being claimed — please keep those qualifiers when quoting.
- We never identify people on the ground or state causes/casualties
  unless an outside source is named.
- Positions come from aircraft's own broadcasts (ADS-B); analysis is
  GTLA AirWatch's. Attribution: "GTLA AirWatch (gtla.live)".

## Contact

Editorial: https://gtla.live — GTLA newsroom, Los Angeles.