Aircraft tracker.

SideWinder · 30 Aug 2011 at 21:29

Someone posted an amazing one recently but i can't find it/i'm being lazy/thought i'd make a talking point out of it.

Can someone recommend a website/app? It will be for tracking a flight from America if that helps.

Slackjaw190 · 30 Aug 2011 at 21:37

Is http://planefinder.net/ what you're after?

SideWinder · 30 Aug 2011 at 21:38

Found it.

http://www.flightradar24.com

Dr. Pain · 30 Aug 2011 at 21:42

Its not THAT great.

Lots of planes are missing, and huge swathes of Europe are not covered by the data collection system they use.

Spain and France have almost no planes sometimes, and lots of planes disappear over Serbia and the Slavic countries!!

KatanaDV20 · 30 Aug 2011 at 23:02

http://uk.flightaware.com/

http://www.flightstats.com/go/FlightStatus/flightStatusByRoute.do

http://www.quicktrip.com/

breadturbo · 30 Aug 2011 at 23:13

they dont work trust me

Hyburnate · 30 Aug 2011 at 23:36

They do

theres a plain right above Duston (where I live) and I can see it

Kol · 30 Aug 2011 at 23:38

breadturbo said:
they dont work trust me

Care to elaborate?

jon86 · 30 Aug 2011 at 23:45

http://www.flightstats.com/go/FlightTracker/flightTracker.do seems to be working pretty well. It is tracking quite a few planes over the US right now, showing a number of them having been delayed.

KatanaDV20 · 30 Aug 2011 at 23:51

Yes flight stats is good, flight aware is also brilliant.

If you like to play wannabe airline pilot in FSX you can use these to fly realistic routes!

Wicksta · 31 Aug 2011 at 00:26

breadturbo said:
they dont work trust me

They worked during the volcano, I tracked quite a few flights wondering out of interest when my peace underneath the Heathrow flight path would be shattered once again by landing planes. They were very accurate, I'll trust my own experience.

Worst ever "ASK ME WHAT MY JOB IS" post as well.

Hyburnate · 31 Aug 2011 at 00:28

KatanaDV20 said:
Yes flight stats is good, flight aware is also brilliant.

If you like to play wannabe airline pilot in FSX you can use these to fly realistic routes!

Quite a lot of my mates are in to it and they just no these routes off by heart so mergh. One even goes plane spotting and I'm like :rolleyes:

breadturbo · 31 Aug 2011 at 02:09

Nah, there never accurate, hours off

I do airport transfers, i pick up drop off 20+ airports a week.

The best way to track time is check the departing airport, ie if it came from dalaman(turkey) go to that website and check departure time and check weather pattern to see if winds are with teh plane or not. (favourable wind knocks off 5mins per hr on avg)
But you need to check the vors as planes don't fly point to point, more liek motorways in the sky they have to follow.