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Post by onlymark on Sept 20, 2012 17:02:18 GMT
I think we had a website like this with ships(?) Or was it this one with planes? Ever wondered where that plane is going that's flying right over your head at the moment? Ever seen the vast amount of flights happening around the world at any one time? (and this isn't all of them). A more or less real time view, or at most a 5 minute delay - zoom in near where you live (though a lot of remote areas do seem fairly empty) and see what is flying around. Hover the mouse over a plane icon and then click to see the details. I could watch it all day and dream. www.flightradar24.com/ |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2012 17:08:18 GMT
Oh my god, they're definitely going to crash into each other!
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Post by onlymark on Sept 20, 2012 17:09:04 GMT
Forgot to mention - if you click and get the details on the left there is an icon for 'cockpit view'. This brings up some flight instruments and is linked to Google Earth(?) to give a view out of the front windscreen (not a real camera view though, a representation. Nevertheless, interesting anyway).
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Post by onlymark on Sept 20, 2012 17:09:43 GMT
I hope they are at different heights K2.
I hope.
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Post by onlymark on Sept 20, 2012 17:14:11 GMT
Try and catch one landing with the cockpit view. Pretty cool.
I've just landed in Israel.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 21, 2012 5:42:18 GMT
Okay, this is seriously cool!
It's kind of disappointing over Mexico right now (12:40 am), because there's only one plane, which is flying sw over the Caribbean. Cockpit view is just black. Is that because it's midnight?
The little switches for cockpit view look just like the ones in Mossie's photos.
GAWD ~~ my dad would have loved this!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2012 20:28:54 GMT
I followed a plane into Paris CDG this morning with the cockpit view. It really is cool.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 29, 2012 13:43:43 GMT
 I just looked again. It appears that the new world is being aeronautically invaded by the old. But then they all hit the US. Except for a very few in the northeast, Mexico's skies are innocent of big silver birds. Indeed, there are none until you get down to off the coast of Panama.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2013 0:18:35 GMT
This link as as fascinating as ever. At this time (European night), it looks like we are being invaded by the United States since just about all of the flights to Europe leave in the evening.
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Post by nautiker on Mar 27, 2013 14:29:39 GMT
It’s indeed an intriguing site/sight – and for me it has made air traffic much more ‘comprehendable’: though I knew planes fly in corridors, those contrails have always looked haphazard to me, it wasn’t until flightradar that I realised how very much defined ‘goat tracks’ those are up there. Nowadays when I see trails in the Nortwest I know: ‘Far East -> Paris’; Southwest: ‘Mid East -> London’; literally straight above: ‘Frankfurt -> North America’… And it’s great that by now you can rewind the clock, so that you can verbatim reiterate your last trips (‘so it was that lake we flew across…’). it was pretty impressive during the Eyjafjallajökull-times, too, when you could ‘see’ the impact the ash cloud had (cannot find my own screenshots from back then, therefore some links will have to do):   |
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Post by mossie on Mar 27, 2013 19:21:33 GMT
There were, and most likely still are, Airways. These are laid down routes signposted by radio beacons which the aircraft home on to. The on board computer can be programmed to fly to each beacon on the route they need and automatically tune to the next one as they reach the first. The speed and height are regulated by the computer so all the pilots have to do is maintain radio contact with the different controllers along the route, supervise, and sit back drinking coffee, etc. (Or having fun with amenable trolley dollies  ;D ;D, introducing them to the "mile high club" if required  ) |
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Post by nautiker on Mar 29, 2013 16:25:14 GMT
yes, I had a faint idea about airways before - it's just that when you're standing on the surface, these patterns hardly show and the contrails looked just erratic to me, flightradar however visualises pretty well the coherencies... (so, a new word for me: trolley dolly. it's 'Saftschubse', i.e. 'juice pusher' over here - certainly not a nicer wording ) |
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Post by mossie on Mar 29, 2013 17:05:27 GMT
If you want the ultimate description, it is
Wagon dragon
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Post by nautiker on Mar 29, 2013 17:12:28 GMT
at least that one could be understood as 'fierce', too, no?
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Post by nautiker on Jul 5, 2013 22:25:56 GMT
annoys me when they've switched off their callsigns - that just was at least the third fourth one tonight...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2014 19:12:15 GMT
This site is as hypnotic as ever.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2016 6:57:33 GMT
Well, I just wasted another 40 minutes clicking on one little plane after another and dreaming.
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Post by fumobici on Jan 6, 2016 15:53:19 GMT
Google apparently has disabled Cockpit View.
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;D ;D, introducing them to the "mile high club" if required 
