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Flight Radar
« on: April 01, 2013, 05:49:42 pm »

I know this is not model boating, but it is brilliant. I tracked my nieces plane coming back from Australia all the way until just before landing
 
http://www.flightradar24.com/
 
 
 
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Re: Flight Radar
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2013, 07:38:09 pm »

Yes your right been useing it for years  very frightening when you see how many planes are up in the air at the same time you just look at Europe on a busy day or time and makes you think do I realy want to fly. I can look out of my as I watch it on the computer at the same time as the airway  upper bravo flys straight over my house.
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Re: Flight Radar
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2013, 08:17:57 pm »

its a great site  i do the same thing look at the computer  to see what planes will be next & then go in the garden to wait to see them come over  most are going into heathrow  about 10.000ft  its great fun :-))
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Re: Flight Radar
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2013, 10:50:08 pm »


Fascinating!.... How is that not a security risk?!?
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Re: Flight Radar
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2013, 10:59:54 pm »

Cant agree More with you Martin but when you think about it Ship ALS is the same
 
 
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Re: Flight Radar
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2013, 11:29:14 pm »


 I'm not a terrorist Stavros.... are you?   8)
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Re: Flight Radar
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2013, 11:32:26 pm »

Well Martin you have LET me down I thought you and I were the ORIGINAL Wickstead terrorists must have got it wrong somehow   O0 O0 {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-)
 
 
 
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Re: Flight Radar
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2013, 12:43:31 am »


Fascinating!.... How is that not a security risk?!?


Because if your watching that, they're watching you!  :police:

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Re: Flight Radar
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2013, 12:53:04 am »

 
 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 :police: :police: :police: :police: :police: :police:
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Re: Flight Radar
« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2013, 02:36:27 am »

fascinating! I wonder if it will show search and rescue helicopters round the UK?
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Re: Flight Radar
« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2013, 07:51:23 am »

it do,s show the helicopters  in scotland going to the oil rigs  etc so the search & rescue may be on there (S.A.R choppers show up  on the  shipping ais site)   the other thing to try when you click on a plane  look at the left panel 'that comes up 'speed alt etc' click on cockpit view   it gives you a cockpit view  of that flight  thats cool :-)) :-))  regards ray
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Re: Flight Radar
« Reply #11 on: April 02, 2013, 10:20:27 am »

I guess that everyone knows about the ships equivalent:
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/
just zoom in to where you want to be.
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Re: Flight Radar
« Reply #12 on: April 02, 2013, 11:06:00 am »

I use Flightradar24 nearly every day. When I was in Sydney, under the flight path to runway 16R at Kingsford Smith Airport, I could track an aircraft then go outside and watch it go overhead (I was on holidays and didn't have much else to do :D )


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Re: Flight Radar
« Reply #13 on: April 02, 2013, 03:55:25 pm »

I use Flightradar24 nearly every day. When I was in Sydney, under the flight path to runway 16R at Kingsford Smith Airport, I could track an aircraft then go outside and watch it go overhead (I was on holidays and didn't have much else to do :D )


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I have done the same in my conservatory where they tend to be in front rather than directly above.
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Re: Flight Radar
« Reply #14 on: April 02, 2013, 05:40:41 pm »

With the prevailing SW wind, we get incoming Stansted traffic more or less overhead, but its mainly Easy Jet and Ryanair so not very interesting {:-{  One good effect of the recent  East and NE winds is no aircraft noise as they have turned out before they get to us :-)) :-))


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Re: Flight Radar
« Reply #15 on: April 02, 2013, 05:57:32 pm »

I have an app on the iphone called plane finder that does a very similar thing.


My father is now a retired aircraft engineer, RAF for 22 years then civilian for the rest and he rarely goes outside without his binoculars for watching the planes going in and out of Gatwick.
In the summer he sits there watching them and saying what they aircraft they are and what airline. I sit there telling him the registration number, route, altitude, call sign Etc.....  He wants an iphone now just for that!  :-)


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