Aircraft position map

M8TJT · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 9:55 am Post subject: Aircraft position map

Found this interesting (to me anyway) site. May interest you as well.

mikealder · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 10:01 am Post subject:

I have the mobile version on my phone, its great fun sat outside the pub when someone says "I wonder where that plane is going" within seconds you have the answer - Mike

M8TJT · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 10:25 am Post subject:

My Mrs. Gets ever so bored when I rush outside and tell her it's flight xxx and it's at 10,00ft etc.
Strange how they give the alt in ft and speed in kts Very Happy

At least the whole world hasn't gone to this strange metric convention then and have to make do with figures in brackets.

BoPeep · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 11:35 am Post subject:

It's a brilliant site - really interesting. I use the mobile version on my HTC Desire and tracked my Dad's recent flight to Tenerife. I took some photographs of the screen as the flight was over various locations and showed them to him on his return. He was very impressed!

Flight Track for the Android is also a good app.

Can you tell I am a plane spotter? Cool

Regards,

Laura.
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M8TJT · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 9:01 am Post subject:

Seems like everybody and his (her) dog had heard about it except me Shocked

jeta1 · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:01 pm Post subject:

I use FlightRadar24 and another similar facility called Plane Finder (on my iPhone) they offer a surprising degree of accuracy. I live very close to Manchester Airport, normal arrivals pass within a few hundred metres of my back garden, so I can match up the aircraft with the data from these programs ... very sad I know!

DennisN · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 7:17 pm Post subject:

GPS_fan · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:26 am Post subject:

The trouble with this kind of thing is that it seems to concentrate on the larger airports (Heathrow & Gatwick) and neglects the smaller ones (Southampton & Bournemouth).

There is a free iPhone app for this very same thing, here, but it does show the vast majority of planes in the sky around me.
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jeta1 · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 12:00 pm Post subject:

mikealder · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 12:21 pm Post subject:

The aircraft needs to be fitted with an ADS-B Transponder to appear on the map "Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast" See Here for more information - Mike

jeta1 · Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:45 am Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:31 am Post subject:

That's quite cool..... Smile

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MaFt · Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 1:49 am Post subject:

slightly gutted that no planes seem to land at Leeds Bradford according to the app...

on a clear day we can watch them land from our garden Smile

and yes, they have jets there!

still, an interesting app. it alerted me to a hijack this morning but i couldn't find any way to pull up that aircraft in the app?!

MaFt

M8TJT · Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 9:00 am Post subject:

jeta1 · Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:14 pm Post subject:

Just been in Bradford this morning and the "Plane Finder" app on my iPhone picked up a couple of fllghts for Leeds Bradford. Smile

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