The Most Amazing Site!

Just to take people's minds off the melee in the middle of the floor:

This may well be the most amazing site. There must be 100,000
aircraft flying in the world right now. Here is a map with every
aircraft shown; where it is, where it's from and where it's going, its
speed and height and every detail about it. Then as if that is not
enough, you can click on "cockpit view" and see what the pilot can
see. It is incredible to say the least, right up to the time it
touches down, even see the various airport buildings as it is about to
touch down. Thousands of them, just click on the aircraft to see all
the details.



http://www.flightradar24.com//t_blank


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Regards,

Eric Stevens

On 2012-09-25 16:52:31 -0700, Eric Stevens said:

Just to take people's minds off the melee in the middle of the floor:

This may well be the most amazing site. There must be 100,000
aircraft flying in the world right now. Here is a map with every
aircraft shown; where it is, where it's from and where it's going, its
speed and height and every detail about it. Then as if that is not
enough, you can click on "cockpit view" and see what the pilot can
see. It is incredible to say the least, right up to the time it
touches down, even see the various airport buildings as it is about to
touch down. Thousands of them, just click on the aircraft to see all
the details.



http://www.flightradar24.com//t_blank



That is neat.
Thanks!

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Regards,

Savageduck

On 9/25/2012 6:52 PM, Eric Stevens wrote:
Just to take people's minds off the melee in the middle of the floor:

This may well be the most amazing site. There must be 100,000
aircraft flying in the world right now. Here is a map with every
aircraft shown; where it is, where it's from and where it's going, its
speed and height and every detail about it. Then as if that is not
enough, you can click on "cockpit view" and see what the pilot can
see. It is incredible to say the least, right up to the time it
touches down, even see the various airport buildings as it is about to
touch down. Thousands of them, just click on the aircraft to see all
the details.



http://www.flightradar24.com//t_blank




They recently improved that site, which made it worth using for me..
Until recently, they only used the user inputted data.
But now, they also use that, plus the FAA delayed data.
Before they did that, the skies would look pretty slim vs what was
really out there. Say compared to Flightaware, which uses the FAA data.
For some things, I still prefer Flightaware, but radar24 is greatly
improved now, from what it was a while back. And the sim feature is
kind of interesting even with the sort of grainy looking images.
One reason I use Flightware alot is I use real world routes when
running my flight sim, and I can copy the planned routes off
Flightaware.
I then make a custom "flight" for the ATC at Simroutes.com..
That way, I can load the exact route into the FMC, and what
the ATC expects will match what I load.. If I don't do that, ATC
will have a hissy fit, and try to re-route me according to it's
whims.. :|
I've been running mostly the 737NG series lately, using the PMDG
aircraft..
Have the 600,700,800,and 900.. No 900ER though..

I use a 600 as my private BBJ.. Just repainted it recently..
Doing the "bowl" at Toncontin with the new version paint..
Also added wifi when I did the paint job.. :/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4fyrVwvNW4

I also run a lot of Southwest routes, and have both the 700 and 800
for those.
In fact, I made a sim version of an exact plane I took pictures of
at Hobby.. N8306H, which is the sixth 800 they received last spring.
http://home.comcast.net/~disk200/swa800-1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~disk200/swa800-3.jpg

A quicky run around the block in the sim version of N8306H I cooked up..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-IDyjFctqI

In article , Eric Stevens
says...
Just to take people's minds off the melee in the middle of the floor:

This may well be the most amazing site. There must be 100,000
aircraft flying in the world right now. Here is a map with every
aircraft shown; where it is, where it's from and where it's going, its
speed and height and every detail about it. Then as if that is not
enough, you can click on "cockpit view" and see what the pilot can
see. It is incredible to say the least, right up to the time it
touches down, even see the various airport buildings as it is about to
touch down. Thousands of them, just click on the aircraft to see all
the details.

It shows no planes flying over Iran, India or China which is a bit
strange.
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Alfred Molon
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http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/
http://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site

On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 7:20:04 AM UTC+1, Alfred Molon wrote:
In article , Eric Stevens

It shows no planes flying over Iran, India or China which is a bit

strange.

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Alfred Molon


I found this in the website:
"Flightradar24 have about 500 volunteers contributing with data from private receivers around the world. You can help us to increase coverage in your area if you have and ADS-B receiver and start to share your data with us."

It looks like it is an public project, that is impressive.
So, no volunteers in these parts of the world.

DanP

"DanP" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 7:20:04 AM UTC+1, Alfred Molon wrote:
In article , Eric Stevens

It shows no planes flying over Iran, India or China which is a bit

strange.

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Alfred Molon


I found this in the website:
"Flightradar24 have about 500 volunteers contributing with data from
private receivers around the world. You can help us to increase coverage
in your area if you have and ADS-B receiver and start to share your data
with us."

It looks like it is an public project, that is impressive.
So, no volunteers in these parts of the world.

DanP

It's pretty good in my neighborhood, San Diego, California; however, I can
hear constant (I mean CONstant) activity at MCAS Miramar, and there is no
data visible. Leads me to believe we can't expect to see any military
activity.

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Frank ess

On 2012-09-27 20:24:20 -0700, "Frank S" said:


"DanP" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 7:20:04 AM UTC+1, Alfred Molon wrote:
In article , Eric Stevens

It shows no planes flying over Iran, India or China which is a bit

strange.

--



Alfred Molon


I found this in the website:
"Flightradar24 have about 500 volunteers contributing with data from
private receivers around the world. You can help us to increase
coverage in your area if you have and ADS-B receiver and start to share
your data with us."

It looks like it is an public project, that is impressive.
So, no volunteers in these parts of the world.

DanP

It's pretty good in my neighborhood, San Diego, California; however, I
can hear constant (I mean CONstant) activity at MCAS Miramar, and there
is no data visible. Leads me to believe we can't expect to see any
military activity.

Tracking is defendant on the aircraft having an ADS-B transponder.
http://www.flightradar24.com/how-it-works

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Regards,

Savageduck

On 28/09/2012 04:24, Frank S wrote:
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It's pretty good in my neighborhood, San Diego, California; however, I
can hear constant (I mean CONstant) activity at MCAS Miramar, and there
is no data visible. Leads me to believe we can't expect to see any
military activity.

To see aircraft such as military and some passenger and business flights
which don't broadcast their position, you can use a process called
multilateration. This is available in an amateur-priced piece of
software called PlanePlotter:

http://www.coaa.co.uk/planeplotter.htm

Access to the multilateration (Mlat) feature costs a few Euros a year,
unless you have your own receiver (costs from about 73 Euro upwards),
when Mlat is free. There is more information about how Mlat works he

http://www.coaa.co.uk/multilat.pdf

I hope you find that interesting.
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Cheers,
David
Web: http://www.satsignal.eu

On 2012-09-27 22:07:38 -0700, Sqwertz said:

On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:52:31 +1200, Eric Stevens wrote:

http://www.flightradar24.com//t_blank

Is the plane data cut off on descent at around 1,000 ft? Every plane
I pick seems to go defunct right around 1K. It says "Waiting for new
coordinates" and the plane pane on the left of the browser resets as
if no plane is selected. The cockpit view window still stays on top,
though - as if it's frozen.

-sw

I think that depends on the local arrangements.
I followed a few flights on approach into SFO, as you say they seem to
drop off at about 1000 ft. However checking on flights into Schipol
(AMS) they show ground traffic right up to the ramp.

As far as cockpit view goes, the window opens and I get nothing but the
following message;
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1295663/Fil...eenshot_15.jpg


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Regards,

Savageduck

On 2012-09-27 20:34:53 -0700, Savageduck said:

On 2012-09-27 20:24:20 -0700, "Frank S" said:


"DanP" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 7:20:04 AM UTC+1, Alfred Molon wrote:
In article , Eric Stevens

It shows no planes flying over Iran, India or China which is a bit

strange.

--



Alfred Molon


I found this in the website:
"Flightradar24 have about 500 volunteers contributing with data from
private receivers around the world. You can help us to increase
coverage in your area if you have and ADS-B receiver and start to share
your data with us."

It looks like it is an public project, that is impressive.
So, no volunteers in these parts of the world.

DanP

It's pretty good in my neighborhood, San Diego, California; however, I
can hear constant (I mean CONstant) activity at MCAS Miramar, and there
is no data visible. Leads me to believe we can't expect to see any
military activity.

Tracking is defendant on the aircraft having an ADS-B transponder.
http://www.flightradar24.com/how-it-works

"de-f-endand"!!
What was I thinking? Consider the "f" replaced with a "p". :-(


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Regards,

Savageduck