This Website is Either Very Clever or Completely Bonkers

mr_goo
mr_goo Posts: 3,770
edited August 2014 in The cake stop
http://www.flightradar24.com/
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  • arran77
    arran77 Posts: 9,260
    It's very interesting.

    You should have seen it when MH17 was kicking off, the differences in flight patterns before and after were quite marked :shock:
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  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    How and where is the data collated? To be able to track every commercial jet/prop, biz jet and in many cases private light planes in the skies of the whole world is just mind boggling. You can click on each plane. It tells you airline, route, height, speed etc etc. Very very very clever.
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  • Manc33
    Manc33 Posts: 2,157
    Wait until you find the ones going in circles. :lol:

    You can zoom in on your house and hear the plane as its on the screen lol.

    RYR13UG was heading right over my house then changed course about 70 miles away. :(
  • priory
    priory Posts: 743
    In 1970's etc there used to be a cubic building with few windows in the middle of england with a car park and cycle racks , inside a secure base. when you went inside there was what seemed to me like a big movie-theatre style hall full of tiers of radar screens and scores of atc operators watching everything from iceland to norway . occasionally a group would gather round one screen to watch a russian bomber come over the north sea and get met by a raf jet. The cost of all this must have been huge. That building must have been connected to radar machines at all corners of the uk by hard wires in those days.
    now you can just go to google, provided they don't switch it of when you really need it, I suppose.
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  • Silly Old Hector
    Silly Old Hector Posts: 573
    Great app on an iPad. I have used it to monitor SAR helicopters near my house.

    Combine it with Marinetraffic.com and bob's your uncle - you're a stalker...

    Anyone use a plane radio scanner ?
    All the gear, but no idea...
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,283
    Click on any of the aircraft - it's good.

    There's a private jet (Bombadier 6000) flying away from Eire..

    Cheap at half the price
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  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    I was looking at the air traffic on west coast of South America. Clicked on plane. It was a hot air balloon. Brilliant. Also noticed that lots of the private light aircraft in USA have transponders. Guess this due to large uninhabitable areas they fly over.
    Just a fascinating website, to click on any plane and the ID is displayed plus it's journey details. If only this was around when I was a nerdy plane spotting kid.
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  • Cygnus
    Cygnus Posts: 1,879
    You can get the Flightradar24 app for your phone, the free version is very basic so won't show you much but that's one app worth paying for, I've had it on my phone for years.
  • declan1
    declan1 Posts: 2,470
    Watched a 777 crash into the Pacific the other day. Hmmm....

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    I have no idea what's going on here.
  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    When the TdF was on, I was using this to track the fixed wing aircraft that are used to relay video feeds, they just follow the route but circle all the time so they can stay relatively close.
  • majormantra
    majormantra Posts: 2,094
    This is amazing, thank you.
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    Were you looking for this website mistyped?

    Is that how it was discovered ? :)
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  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    Its even more bonkers/cleverer than I thought. Select Data/History and then Airline Fleet. It then gives a list of airlines. Select any airline. It then shows a map of the world where everyone of the fleet is located in real time. Select any plane from the icons below the map and it will give you a recent full flight history of that plane. Mad.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,283
    Mr Goo wrote:
    Its even more bonkers/cleverer than I thought. Select Data/History and then Airline Fleet. It then gives a list of airlines. Select any airline. It then shows a map of the world where everyone of the fleet is located in real time. Select any plane from the icons below the map and it will give you a recent full flight history of that plane. Mad.

    Does that mean you are going to pre-empt a future flight by seeing if BA349* has stopped at Heathrow long enough for a service?

    *For example
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Mr Goo wrote:
    Its even more bonkers/cleverer than I thought. Select Data/History and then Airline Fleet. It then gives a list of airlines. Select any airline. It then shows a map of the world where everyone of the fleet is located in real time. Select any plane from the icons below the map and it will give you a recent full flight history of that plane. Mad.

    Looks like Yorkshire Airways are playing true to form! All heading home to bed! :lol:

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  • johnny25
    johnny25 Posts: 344
    I prefer http://marinetraffic.com

    Far more exciting.

    I don't live anywhere near the sea.
  • tlw1
    tlw1 Posts: 22,144
    pinarello001 wrote:
    Click on any of the aircraft - it's good.

    There's a private jet (Bombadier 6000) flying away from Eire..

    Cheap at half the price

    Vtech?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,283
    johnny25 wrote:
    I prefer http://marinetraffic.com

    Far more exciting.

    I don't live anywhere near the sea.

    I detect a hint of sarcasm in that.

    A true anoraks (sorry, sou wester's) website.
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  • meagain
    meagain Posts: 2,331
    Pretty quiet over Ukraine and Iraq, so I assume Russian and USA military don't feature on this version!
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  • adamfo
    adamfo Posts: 763
    I had a look at the site the evening after MH17 was shot down. There were still regional flights flying in a north/south corridor over Donetsk. One of them was at 20,000 ft not the normal 30,000-36,000. MH17 was at 32,000 ft and flying over 500 mph. The data feed Flight24 use is recorded.
    There were certainly lots of airlines flying near the Malaysian flight when was was downed. An Air India 13km to the north and a Thai airways 2 minutes behind flying the same L980 airway.

    I think what happened is operator error by the SA-11 BUK crew. On the 14th July a Ukrainian Air force An-26 was shot down at 21300ft which is well out of range of any hand-held missile system. The rebels tried the same thing again, perhaps trying to shoot down a Ukrainian SU-25 which the Russians say was in the area at the time. The SU-25 would could well have been flying west to east on a mission. The error was inputting 30,000 ft. and not 20,000ft. As I understand it the SA-11 needs two additional radar support vehicles for full info and triangulation. It has more limited capability operating alone. Still effective though having a large proximity burst warhead.
  • rollemynot
    rollemynot Posts: 436
    Literally browsing this thread and I hear a jet high above...... Lux to Mex 777

    Gonna be up all night now!!
  • rollemynot
    rollemynot Posts: 436
    Rollemynot wrote:
    Literally browsing this thread and I hear a jet high above...... Lux to Mex 777

    Gonna be up all night now!!
    Now there is ABZ to LHR passing over
  • tyred&weary
    tyred&weary Posts: 243
    There was one marked in red the other day, bound for Calgary, it did a figure of eight up to Glasgow and landed back at Heathrow.
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    On sunday I saw the KLM flight out of Amsterdam bound for St Maarten tracking across the UK.

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