Flight Radar............

[BarnsleyBrewer]

Check out where the planes are.... :geek: :geek:

<<CLICKY>>

 

[Muddydisco]

Just watched a plane leave heathrow, With no assigned callsign!!! what shifty plane could that be???

 

[joe1002]

That is cool :

 

[PD]

just clicked on one plane shown flying towards my town ( call sign not known strangely ) clicked on the cockpit view and watched it fly over my town sure enough the plane could be heard ( not seen due to cloud ) passing over my house heading westwards.
Amazing.


I waved !

 

[Andy.H]

Same here, an American Airlines plane was just heading for Northampton... it's cloudy so we opened the window. As it approached, it started banking over us... you could hear it above the clouds :shock:

Big Brother is watching... well, everyone and everything it would appear!

 

[EskiBrew]

That is rather neat :thumb:

 

[dennisking]

Another good find John, hours of fun.

 

[graysalchemy]

Another great find John :thumb:

I can now identify all the Noisy B*stards disturbing the piece over my house. :lol: :lol:

 

[Dr Mike]

Tracking more than just planes this evening

http://www.flightradar24.com/SANTA1

 

[stevie1556]

They have a app for smart phones. I always use it to stalk the misses when she is working as she is cabin crew!

Great fun :thumb:

 

[bobsbeer]

Just checked. Santa's running a bit late this year. He's still over France. :wha:

 

[Russ146]

ive had this is my fone for months now, i loved sitting down the garden with a pint and identifying what plane was what and where it had come from and where it was going.

Ive always fancied flying one, You know, both pilots have been taken ill and they need somebody to land the plane. I would be up for it. I mean, how hard can it be? Auto pilot, talked down by the control tower

Ive killed thousands on the flight sim

 

[stevie1556]

Ive always fancied flying one, You know, both pilots have been taken ill and they need somebody to land the plane. I would be up for it. I mean, how hard can it be? Auto pilot, talked down by the control tower

You do realise that when the plane lands itself it's generally a better landing then what the pilot's can manage! And I know this from working on them for too long!

 

[eggman]

Check out where the planes are.... :geek: :geek:

<<CLICKY>>

:clap: Nice one :thumb:

 

[BarnsleyBrewer]

Another site for all the flight geeks...

PLANE SPOTTER

JET2

 

[Dr Mike]

Or if ships are your thing...

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/

 

[Robbo100]

Apparently plane spotters use this system to identify the tail number of the aircraft passing over their house, then run outside to "spot" the aircraft and the (assuming they see it) note down the tail number in their log book. It is called "dot spotting".

They need to take up a better hobby like..... BREWING!

 

[brewzone]

I used what I believe was this program when My Daughter flew out to Egypt in September.

Entered the airline and flight number and waited for it to takeoff.

There seemed to be an initial delay of around 10-20 mins before the flight position was updated.

Watched the little animated plane fly over the UK, then over Europe towards the Med.

To My horror the position stopped being updated somewhere a few hundred miles from Rhodes.

It did not update for the rest of the next five or six hours.

My Daughter finally called Me and put Me out of My misery at midnight UK time.

Thats the last time I will ever do that.

Common sense told Me She was happily on Her way from the Airport in Egypt to Her hotel but irrational fear caused Me to have the longest few hours of My life.

Funny now but at the time horrific!!

BZ

 

[Robbo100]

I think it only uses Mode-S (a system that sends specific aircraft data over the radio, which then gets merged with the radar position data on the ATC console) to keep the system updated, so as soon as the flight goes out of VHF range (about 200 miles from the ground transceiver) it stops reporting data.

During Extended Range operation (over the sea) the system will use HF radio and SATCOM to keep the ground station updated as to its position every 30 mins or so, but you don't get a continually updated radar track like you do over land.

You must have been having kittens!

 

[brewzone]

I think it only uses Mode-S (a system that sends specific aircraft data over the radio, which then gets merged with the radar position data on the ATC console) to keep the system updated, so as soon as the flight goes out of VHF range (about 200 miles from the ground transceiver) it stops reporting data.

During Extended Range operation (over the sea) the system will use HF radio and SATCOM to keep the ground station updated as to its position every 30 mins or so, but you don't get a continually updated radar track like you do over land.

You must have been having kittens!

I certainly was

:lol: