What a COOL Site: Real-Time Worldwide Commercial Flight Radar!

Reaganite Republican ^ | 03 April 2013 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

Maybe just because I'm a bit of a trainspotter/planespotter geek, I really dig this site: charts all commercial aircraft in the air worldwide in real time (except unfortunately US carriers on
5 min. delay due to unique American security concerns).

Elsewhere -as I recently did in Europe- you can glance at FlightRadar24 when you hear a roar, get the flight #/carrier online and bingo there it is on the tailfin overhead 30 seconds later.

Users can click on any plane (moving) over any chosen worldwide flight radar map and get flight #, carrier, plane type, basic stats, flight info, and even a picture of the aircraft in correct livery. One can choose an airport or other geographical area for mapping, or a flight number can be entered in the left column they'll find it for you.

Obvious uses would include seeing how you're wife's flight is doing, if you business partner will make the meeting this afternoon... or who is it exactly that's always buzzing your otherwise peaceful backyard. Not only is it free, but there's useful filters and even a playback feature, and naturally they're willing to sell you additional 'premium' features such as various smartphone apps and additional functionality.

First impression was there's a lotta birds up there- more than even my vivid imagination expected, and pretty much everywhere.... 

Check it out here- 

FlightRadar24    h/t RightWingNews

[illiac]

It is a neat site...however, my son and his wife went to Cancun a couple of weeks ago and their flights kept falling off the map not to be found...

[Married with Children]

Would be awesome if there was one of these for trains!

[Reaganite Republican]

*** PING ***

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Bump to get linky later.

[SkyDancer]

There is: http://www.dixielandsoftware.com/Amtrak/status/StatusPages/EmpireBuilderStatus.htm

[toast]

How about sharks?

http://sharks-ocearch.verite.com/

[dfwgator]

And I thought this game was hard.

[South40]

YIKES!

[PA Engineer]

Very cool. Added as an opening front page tab in my browser. Thanks. BTTT.

[FourtySeven]

Cool.

[dfwgator]

Looks like a swarm of ants.

[Reaganite Republican]

I could see how that would be worrying~

[Reaganite Republican]

That’s what I was saying, and approach in trails like ants...

[illiac]

Yeh...it was, too.

Kept having to exit the website and go back in...after a few minutes - gone again...

[NormsRevenge]

trainspotter/planespotter

lol.. better than a carpetspotter. ;-]

looks like a pile of midairs to me.. too bad they don’t have 3/4-D. or do they? I just saw the Met Life blimp a few days a go meself, flying real low..

[Married with Children]

You are right...that is “a lot of birds up there”!!! I can’t believe how many planes are in the skies at the same time all over the world!! I live here in Memphis and right now is when all the Fed Ex planes are heading out all across the world after today’s sort at the Fed Ex hub here so it is cool to click on those planes. Can log back on tonight around 11:00 and check all the inbound Fed Ex flights. Pretty cool site!

[dfwgator]

Probably best to stick with the airline-specific tracker for that, I know American Airlines lets you visually track a specific flight.

[Married with Children]

and approach in trails like ants...

How very true. It is cool to be at a major airport after dark and be able to count at least 10 headlights in the air coming in for a landing...one right after the other (one two seperate parallel runways of course).

[Joe Boucher]

We need one o track Drones