Pretty, though, just to nit-pick since I happen to be sitting on a plane, seems to be not quite live: <a href="http://cl.ly/image/002u2g152Y0T" rel="nofollow">http://cl.ly/image/002u2g152Y0T</a>
Very impressive indeed. One of the coolest features of the site is the Cockpit view - a very creative use of Google Maps and graphics to give you a Flight Simulator like view from inside the cockpit of any of the thousands of aircraft in the air.
Wow. That looks beautiful.<p>Note that just because there aren't that many planes over Africa or other places doesn't mean there aren't planes there. From their site: "Today about 60% (about 30% in USA and about 70% in Europe) of the passenger aircraft and only a small amount of military and private aircraft have an ADS-B transponder."
There is also a similar site for marine traffic:
<a href="http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/" rel="nofollow">http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/</a><p>The technology behind the system is the same as in FlightRadar (on principle). The ships have AIS[1] transponders which transmit the position and velocity. This information is received through receivers run by army of volunteers and then submitted to the central site.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Identification_System" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Identification_System</a>
Anyone else surprised by the number of flights in the air at any given time? I never even imagined that there was this much activity even though I'm a frequent flyer.
This is very neat! I love it. Uh, I don't know if this is an error or if they're doing flight testing, but this is a very weird track: <a href="http://fr24.com/KAL32" rel="nofollow">http://fr24.com/KAL32</a>
Cockpit view is generating an error: "The Google Maps API key used on this web site was registered for a different web site. The developer of this web site can generate a new key here.<p>(here links to <a href="https://developers.google.com/maps/" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/maps/</a>)
A similar project with an academic background is 'AirTraffic LIVE':<p><a href="http://radar.zhaw.ch/" rel="nofollow">http://radar.zhaw.ch/</a><p>It was created by students of a Swiss college of applied science in 2007. The test site is focus on Zurich International Airport but they have completed other projects based an their research. A spectacular example is a globe showing air traffic world wide created for a science museum:<p><a href="http://radar.zhaw.ch/worldwide.html" rel="nofollow">http://radar.zhaw.ch/worldwide.html</a><p>There is also a Google Earth extension for private use:<p><a href="http://www.idp.zhaw.ch/de/engineering/idp/forschung/transport-and-traffic-engineering/real-time-air-traffic-in-3d.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.idp.zhaw.ch/de/engineering/idp/forschung/transpor...</a>
Love it! There's alot of activity! How many planes, how many people up in the air in an average moment? All this talk of a third runway / increased flight support in the UK, but really - how much oil is left - how sustainable is this industry?
Interesting...does JetBlue use two types of radar? I'm often seeing two icons for one flight: <a href="http://imgur.com/a/kENc0" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/a/kENc0</a>
Cool!:p I'm living next to an airport and it looks like it doesn't pickup everything (or some too late), but just a few minutes ago I heard a plane coming by & it was also on flightradar =')<p>Idea: people give their location & the app says when to expect noise from airplanes and when it will be away=)
Just remembered that I found Donald Trump on this a while back - he was flying in to my home city of Aberdeen:<p><a href="http://blog.mclemon.cz/i-found-donald-trump-in-flight-radar-24" rel="nofollow">http://blog.mclemon.cz/i-found-donald-trump-in-flight-radar-...</a>
Why cockpit view is not working for me? It says: The Google Maps API key used on this website was registered for a different website. The developer of this website can generate a new key here.
Thanks for posting this is amazing.<p>The cockpit view is very cool. Reminds me: You can climb Mt everest also now on Google Earth.<p>South Col etc. At 8000m, somewhat crazy but similar views =D
planefinder.net is similar.<p>I live in south-eastern Canada and I can confirm it's very accurate, big jets to and from Europe constantly rumble overhead.