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AR Planes: Discover nearby planes in augmented reality

35 pointsby fvargasover 7 years ago

6 comments

dingalingover 7 years ago
Looks pretty though I can&#x27;t try it out since it&#x27;s iPhone-only but a few thoughts:<p>1. It&#x27;s not a new concept, both the Planefinder and FR24 apps already have an AR point-and-tell mode on Android and iOS. The main difference is that this app seems to draw an orientated cartoon of each aircraft by type.<p>2. What is its back-end data feed? From Planefinder or FlightAware APIs perhaps? Without knowing that we can&#x27;t determine what aircraft will appear, though I suspect it&#x27;s only going to work for aircraft which transmit full ADS-B output ( large airliners &amp; really expensive modern smaller aircraft )<p>3. In fact there&#x27;s very little information about it at all. So it&#x27;s not clear if it supports FLARM ( gliders ), PilotAware ( small private aircraft ) or Mode-S Multilateration. Does it implement the FAA&#x27;s BARR list to elide corporate aircraft?<p>I don&#x27;t intend to sound critical but being in this &#x27;space&#x27; as a feeder to several tracking networks I&#x27;ve seen layperson friends rush-out to try these sort of apps and then become disappointed because they don&#x27;t show the Cessna in which their son is doing his flight-training.<p>Addendum: also irritating that it displays the flight plan using the IATA three-letter codes. No-one files a plan using those, and they only cover a small proportion of all airfields.
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Odenwaelderover 7 years ago
Too expensive to try. EUR 4.49 is too much for something without any kind of practical use.
brent_noordaover 7 years ago
Works great. My passion is convincing people that air flight is environmentally wicked and you just shouldn’t do it. One barrier I hit is people thinking “there aren’t enough flights going on to make this a problem”. This app gives a visceral, visual counter argument to that, and lets the user quickly see how very far those flights are traveling. Thanks for making it. (Don’t suppose you’d add a feature to show how much fuel is being burned :-)
10dpdover 7 years ago
Why do the planes not move?
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TimMeadeover 7 years ago
great concept. Too expensive.....
danieldrehmerover 7 years ago
An indispensable resource on a terrorist&#x27;s toolset