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Live air traffic of the world
- mikeash 14y agoReally cool, but the constant nagging popups telling me to download the app instead were unbelievably annoying.
- nodesocket 14y agoAmazing, didn't realize at any given time, how many planes are in the air around the world.
- MikeCodeAwesome 14y agoIndeed. According to the August, 2012 print edition of Popular Science, there are 500,000 people being transported in air at any given moment.
- rapidstuff 14y agoAbsolutely amazing!
- cefarix 14y agoThe flight map over South Asia, China, and most of South America looks to be very incomplete.
- mixmastamyk 14y agoProbably the time of day, I notice many more planes in Europe.
- shortsightedsid 14y agoI wonder it live or delayed. Its 10.30 in India and past noon in China.
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- tersiag 14y agothe same goes for Africa
- mseebach 14y agoFor alt least some of their data, they rely on radio amateurs picking up transponder data and uploading it. They probably don't have a good network of stations in those regions.
- bisrig 14y agoSomething to keep in mind regarding "completeness": only planes equipped with ADS-B transponders will generally be picked up by this (I say generally because I'm not sure if they are trying any multilateration techniques here on the Mode S). Prevalence of ADS-B is OK at best and very dependent on geographical area and type of aircraft (general aviation, commercial domestic, commercial international, etc).
- Zaheer 14y agoWow. That looks beautiful. Note that just because there aren't that many planes over Africa or other places doesn't mean there aren't planes there. From their site: "Today about 60% (about 30% in USA and about 70% in Europe) of the passenger aircraft and only a small amount of military and private aircraft have an ADS-B transponder."
- jasonzemos 14y agoLooks like the Virgin Atlantic and British Airways 747's hit 600+ knots on the redeye across the pond.
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- arunoda 14y agoWow, this is amazing.
- ricksta 14y agono plane around beijing?
- nja 14y agoThis is crazy cool. I love the cockpit view!
- joshzayin 14y agoCockpit view is generating an error: "The Google Maps API key used on this web site was registered for a different web site. The developer of this web site can generate a new key here. (here links to https://developers.google.com/maps/ https://developers.google.com/maps/)
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- soitgoes 14y agofrom the forum - "If you have problems with "Aircraft View" or API-key, make sure to install latest version of Google Earth plugin-in http://www.google.com/earth/explore/products/plugin.html http://www.google.com/earth/explore/products/plugin.html and remove your ad-blocker." I logged in to google earth, paused ad blocker and cockpit view is now working for me.
- 69_years_and 14y agoBoats more your thing? http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/ http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/
- nja 14y agoI've visited that site for a while, but I think this is a little more exciting...planes tend to move faster than boats :) Also, of course, the cockpit view is amazing.
- 69_years_and 14y agoThanks - I think I need to check the cockpit view. I was recently travelling by plane and from the high vantage point saw how many boats were around Singapore - it was an eye opener.
- FrojoS 14y agoVery cool site. The flight sight is a bit nicer, it shows you pretty much all planes at the same time. With the boats map you have to preselect an area to load the view. Might be more boats though. Anyway thanks for pointing this out. My insight today, was just how crowded the Strait of Hormuz is. I read about it and saw air pictures but now I _really_ understand what all the fuzz about Iran war consequences is about.
- mxfh 14y agoIf you want nice and boats checkout http://www.fleetmon.com/live_tracking/info http://www.fleetmon.com/live_tracking/info It signup only and the free plan is 5 minutes a day, but here you go captain.
- curiousDog 14y agoThis is beyond fantastic. Just wow!
- state_machine 14y agoPretty, though, just to nit-pick since I happen to be sitting on a plane, seems to be not quite live: http://cl.ly/image/002u2g152Y0T http://cl.ly/image/002u2g152Y0T
- aptwebapps 14y agoActually, that's pretty good! Can you estimate the lag time (for you)?
- teraflop 14y agoIn the US at least, the FAA's official data feed (ASDI) is delayed by at least 5 minutes. The undelayed data is only given out on an as-needed basis (e.g. to airline operators) and can't be redistributed to the general public.
- caudicus 14y agoI stumbled into the about section, and in there they mention they're using a fleet of 500 volunteer ADS-B receivers networked to a central server, and they actually just pick up on planes with ADS-B transponders (more common in Europe than the US, it seems) - http://www.flightradar24.com/about http://www.flightradar24.com/about - so it looks like they're not aggregating official/moderated data feeds or anything.
- chmars 14y agoFlightRadar24 nevertheless follows the FAA 5-minute rule. In other countries, there is even a delay of 10 or 15 minutes. In Switzerland, the federal aviation authorities tried to impose a delay as well. After a wave of protest pointing out the absurdity of such security through obscurity – you can see aircraft in the sky after all! -, a delay is no longer necessary and you can check in real time which aircraft is flying over your head at the moment (if equipped with ADS-B).
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- pitchups 14y agoVery impressive indeed. One of the coolest features of the site is the Cockpit view - a very creative use of Google Maps and graphics to give you a Flight Simulator like view from inside the cockpit of any of the thousands of aircraft in the air.
- marquis 14y agoI've been watching a plane 'land' via cockpit mode in my home town, a surreally genuine experience given how well I know the terrain and have flown in so many times. Each time the plane rolls to maneuver in, it's as if I'm back on the flight. Oh, now Google Earth crashed as it was getting to the good part. I feel like I missed the ending of a movie.
- Sander_Marechal 14y agoToo bad that the Google Earth plugin doesn't seem work on Linux.
- deepGem 14y agoFor a second I almost thought it was real as the plane was flying over an ocean. Very well done.
- nja 14y agoInteresting...does JetBlue use two types of radar? I'm often seeing two icons for one flight: http://imgur.com/a/kENc0 http://imgur.com/a/kENc0
- piffey 14y agoAnyone else surprised by the number of flights in the air at any given time? I never even imagined that there was this much activity even though I'm a frequent flyer.
- bulltale 14y agoI read somewhere that on average at any given time, 70-80% of all large commercial planes in service is in the air. Compare that to trains or trucks.
- losvedir 14y agoWell, yeah, but those aren't meant to fly... :-p Seriously, though, that number is quite impressive. In order for that number to work across the population of airplanes, that means on average each aircraft individually needs to spend 70-80% of its time flying. Yikes! I've tried searching a bit for a source, but unfortunately can't find one. If you know where you got that from, I'd love to know.
- bulltale 14y agoI did some digging and my statement only seems to apply to long-haul flights, as mentioned in this thread [1]. "Well,most long-haul fleets fly a lot more than short-haul ones.BA 772s and VS 343s fly about 17 hours per day." That is 71%! Average utilization is between 42% and 48%. See [2], Figure 6. [1] http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/1164547/ http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/re... [2] http://web.mit.edu/airlines/analysis/analysis_airline_industry.html http://web.mit.edu/airlines/analysis/analysis_airline_indust...
- khuey 14y agoMy guess is that most long-haul aircraft are flying overnight (since you have to do to a trans-oceanic route) while most short-haul aircraft are parked overnight (there aren't that many short-haul red-eye flights).
- kgarten 14y agonice ... are there any APIs for getting up-to-date flight traffic? Might be fun to play around with it.
- mukaiji 14y agobravo! Way to kill my productivity.
- bencoder 14y agoEnjoying it combined with ATC feeds from http://www.liveatc.net http://www.liveatc.net
- jvandenbroeck 14y agoCool!:p I'm living next to an airport and it looks like it doesn't pickup everything (or some too late), but just a few minutes ago I heard a plane coming by & it was also on flightradar =') Idea: people give their location & the app says when to expect noise from airplanes and when it will be away=)
- smcl 14y agoJust remembered that I found Donald Trump on this a while back - he was flying in to my home city of Aberdeen: http://blog.mclemon.cz/i-found-donald-trump-in-flight-radar-24 http://blog.mclemon.cz/i-found-donald-trump-in-flight-radar-...
- longjohnbenton 14y agoIsn't that just a trump branded plane? He runs a company that charters them out doesn't he? How did you deduce (perhaps you induced) that he was on this plane?
- smcl 14y agoGood question. He has been back and forth to Aberdeen setting up some gaudy trump branded golf resort. A couple of days after I took the screenshot he appeared before the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh. This is how I concluded he was in the plane, though I admit there is a minor chance that I am mistaken! The site itself is fantastic though, I could spend ages just finding out what planes are going where and thinking about where I might visit next. Plus the coloured trails to indicate the altitude are a lovely touch. edit: it was during this time (excellent clip, by the way) http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-26-2012/hairlander http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-26-2012/hairland...
- najamkhn 14y agoI see no point though.
- avaku 14y agoWhy cockpit view is not working for me? It says: The Google Maps API key used on this website was registered for a different website. The developer of this website can generate a new key here.
- josscrowcroft 14y agoThat is absolutely incredible!
- khet 14y agoAmazing how many will not find this amazing.
- colinhowe 14y agoI never truly appreciated how many planes are in the air until now..
- spyder 14y agoand also 13000 satellites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydbbd-4oEds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydbbd-4oEds
- chmars 14y agoA similar project with an academic background is 'AirTraffic LIVE': http://radar.zhaw.ch/ http://radar.zhaw.ch/ It was created by students of a Swiss college of applied science in 2007. The test site is focus on Zurich International Airport but they have completed other projects based an their research. A spectacular example is a globe showing air traffic world wide created for a science museum: http://radar.zhaw.ch/worldwide.html http://radar.zhaw.ch/worldwide.html There is also a Google Earth extension for private use: http://www.idp.zhaw.ch/de/engineering/idp/forschung/transport-and-traffic-engineering/real-time-air-traffic-in-3d.html http://www.idp.zhaw.ch/de/engineering/idp/forschung/transpor...
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- Andrew_Quentin 14y agoI thought there would be a corridor of never ending planes between north America and Europe. According to the map, there are no transatlantic flights.
- aba_sababa 14y agoI think that's because there are no data for that region - the FAQ mentions that the data is crowdsourced from folks with certain receivers. Although, I can't imagine it'd be hard to simulate the paths based on data from both coasts.
- bisrig 14y agoThe issue with the oceanic flights is that there are no receiving stations for the ADS-B messages, as these stations are ground based. Therefore, there is no way to receive the position reports to feed into the flight data network.
- dhughes 14y agoplanefinder.net is similar. I live in south-eastern Canada and I can confirm it's very accurate, big jets to and from Europe constantly rumble overhead.
- zrail 14y agoThis is very neat! I love it. Uh, I don't know if this is an error or if they're doing flight testing, but this is a very weird track: http://fr24.com/KAL32 http://fr24.com/KAL32
- mirsadm 14y agoCockpit view is brilliant. Just watching a plane land back home right now :)
- progrock 14y agoLove it! There's alot of activity! How many planes, how many people up in the air in an average moment? All this talk of a third runway / increased flight support in the UK, but really - how much oil is left - how sustainable is this industry?
- progrock 14y agoKind of related Q and A: http://www.careerfaqs.com.au/careers/interview-questions-and-tips/job-interview-question-and-answer-how-many-people-are-there-flying-in-airplanes-over-the-us-right-now/ http://www.careerfaqs.com.au/careers/interview-questions-and...
- 001sky 14y agoThanks for posting this is amazing. The cockpit view is very cool. Reminds me: You can climb Mt everest also now on Google Earth. South Col etc. At 8000m, somewhat crazy but similar views =D
- jpalomaki 14y agoThere is also a similar site for marine traffic: http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/ http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/ The technology behind the system is the same as in FlightRadar (on principle). The ships have AIS[1] transponders which transmit the position and velocity. This information is received through receivers run by army of volunteers and then submitted to the central site. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Identification_System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Identification_System
- dinnu 14y agoWow..Fantastic..Cockpit view really awesome.
- akg 14y agoWould be really awesome to see a write up about what powers all this on the back end.