Thought this was pretty cool.

 

http://www.flightradar24.com/

 

On the map you will see all the planes in the air.
Roll your mouse wheel to Zoom "In" or "Out"

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’.

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.

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..

 

 

This is pretty cool.  A friend of mine left this morning for South Africa and I was able to look at his plane.  

Terrorists must love this app! lol

Terrorists must love this app! lol

 

How?  Its not really a lot of info.

 

I found this app when I was hanging out in Maine looking at the sky.  Its a neat little gadget.  We had a family party last week in Parsippany under the direct flight path to EWR; my little cousins loved watching the what planes were coming in next, where it was coming from and the type of plane.

It willl show flights on an IFR flight plan or sometimes VFR flights if they are getting traffic advisories-unless they have their tail number blocked.

 

Another cool thing if you have an iPhone with Siri is to say "ask wolfram what flights are overhead". It will go through the wolfram website and tell you what is above your position.

FlightRadar24 app is even better. Has even more info than FlightAware. Has all different types of filters and real time info.

If you want listen in on air traffic control, and the pilots, you can listen to liveatc.net. Sometimes you here some funny stuff.

I thought the same thing... I got the phone app. Pretty kewl. It's not perfect though. I can sit in my backyard and have pain over head and it shows miles away on app and vice versa.

 

Terrorists must love this app! lol

 

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Got that one too. Gets boring though. They also have ship finder too.

 

If you want listen in on air traffic control, and the pilots, you can listen to liveatc.net. Sometimes you here some funny stuff.

 

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The squawks are interesting and make you think. Got one with a radio emergency. Happened near land over water heading out. He turned around and headed back to the airport.

 

 

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Cool...............

How?  Its not really a lot of info.

Just a joke but if the data contains flight information for the blips it could allow a person to figure out the general flight path of a regularly scheduled flight, etc.

 

I thought the same thing... I got the phone app. Pretty kewl. It's not perfect though. I can sit in my backyard and have pain over head and it shows miles away on app and vice versa.

The level of accuracy is an interesting question, for the real time data anyway. It's based on GPS so it should be very accurate. The FAA data is delayed though and not all planes have the ADS-B transponders. When you look up and see a plane directly over head it could easily be miles in either direction because you don't typically have a great point of reference against an always changing sky. 

Here are some recent shots from my iphone of a recent flight.. (Also ipad compatible..)

There are other functions but here are the main ones..

 

View round me...

 

Plane with brief info tag

 

Full info... (Got as much on screen as possible. It scrolls)..

 

Out of cockpit view, uses google maps I believe)..

Fun watching them come in for landing.

I have pro how do I get cockpit view

 

 

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Click on a plane, open the info tag to full, it says 3d view...

 

I have pro how do I get cockpit view

 

 

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Don't see it maybe its not on android

 

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If you look at my 3rd shot down, it would be under Atl... I just didn't scroll enough...

 

 

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Here is a better shot...

See the 3D?

 

 

Don't see it maybe its not on android

 

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Android looks different

 

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Should have got an iphone.... Actually, it works even better on my ipad...

 

Android looks different

 

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Not a fan of I phones

 

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Was just jiving with ya. Lol...

 

Not a fan of I phones

 

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I know I have a 64gb touch the gen before they had cameras in them

 

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