Neat site for avaition buffs! Real time info planes overhead YOU!

[Robby321]

This is one cool site!

Have you ever wondered where that plane flying over head is going and what type of aircraft?
I just watched on my laptop the plane whose vapour trail I could see over head and was blown away by all the information and also the view.
This is definitely a keeper.
You are also going to be totally blown away when you see how many aircraft are flying in your area...
I can now see why an aircraft traffic controller is one very, very busy person.
Planes in Flight...
This will tell you who is flying and where they are going.
Here is a note to help you get more out of your visit to this site.
These are all the aircraft in the air right now.
In the left hand column, there is a box called "planes."
The number in the box is the number of aircraft airborne.
This view is what the traffic management people see for planning purposes at the various airports.
Every day you see planes in the sky, sometimes very high..with or without con-trails.
We ask ourselves questions :
What type of plane, airbus A320,330,350? Boeing.....or other.
Where does it come from, where is it going, what altitude, what speed, what company etc.
You can see all the information instantly on your screen.
Some tricks;
Drag the map to take you to the area you want to view
To view your region or town, you can zoom in by tapping with your mouse. Or + - symbols top left.
On the map you will see all the planes in the air.
Click on a airplane, and on the left screen you will get all the info.
Airline, type, speed, altitude in real time, re calculated every 10 seconds.
On some you can also click on 'view from the cockpit'. ...

http://www.flightradar24.com/47.36,-122.95/9

[cb541]

That is cool!! Thanks

[mr fun]

thats a bunch of traffic for sure, it's 5:55am here and what I'm seeing primaraly are ups and fedx, bunch of junk being transported. great site, thanks Robbie

[tux974]

Very cool!
Hey fun, what do you mean junk Do you mean the stuff is already damaged

[Rich Owen]

Nice !

[SCT]

That is a neat website, Robby. If you want to track a particuliar plane (private or airline), try using flightaware.com .

[Robby321]

That is a neat website, Robby. If you want to track a particuliar plane (private or airline), try using flightaware.com .

I'll have to check that out. Have a friend who pilots a 8 seat Citation jet. Based Denver. Be fun to watch him!

[Robby321]

I don't get much over me here. Near Olympia Wa. But see at night, flights coming into McCord AFB, or to Sea-tac over the Cascade range. Lots of sea planes, and small aircraft over me though. But watching it yesterday, it was cool to see some the departing sea-tac going north over the Olympic mountains, think going overseas? Nope, thats the route some heading down to SFO/LAX! Others Sitka, or Japan, etc. BUT some evenings/nights, ya hear the fighter jets coming over and as they get to the coast, kick in the afterburners..(you can see the flames!) Have to check that out, as see the speed progression! Simple a pretty neat site for "gazing"!

[fichrman2]

I live on the flight line for MAFB - approach for TIA -St.Pete- and 3 locals
Its busy air space, but I can normally pick out whats flying by , by the sound alone .............
Neat link.

[Robby321]

I live on the flight line for MAFB - approach for TIA -St.Pete- and 3 locals
Its busy air space, but I can normally pick out whats flying by , by the sound alone .............
Neat link.

Me too! And as a 1969 Nam Vet, I can say fast hearing , choppers, "Chinook". the many bladed "birds". etc. But when a twin blade "Heuy.."whoop, whoop, whoop" comes into range, I still wanna duck, as (had to be there I guess). And when it comes to two blade gunship "Cobra's? " One MEAN beast to me, and I was on the ground in conveys, in a gun truck. (Sorry, as aviation always bring up "Nam", crap still stuck in my brain..but never deny what I went though, and crawled out, 44 years ago too.