Rush Hour In The Skies: Real Time Map That Shows You Every Plane In The Air Right Now

The Daily Mail:

At any given moment there are an estimated 5,000 commercial airplanes in the skies over the United States and now there's a website that enables you to track them, in real time, on a map.

Flightradar24 makes it possible to track flights all around the world, whether commercial airliners, private jets or military aircraft.

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Comments

[Corpilot]

05:42 PM on 09/18/2012

Ummm this has been around for at least 5 years.....flightaware.com has been offering it for at least that long......jeez when will these writers do their homework?

[IndyGuy]

03:13 PM on 09/18/2012

This is pretty cool! I live at the south end of Indianapolis Int. Airport and sometimes traffic is routed by my house, so now I can see who it is. I love the way you can use Google earth for a "pilot" view. Too cool for aircraft geeks like me.:)

[paulrm]

12:01 PM on 09/18/2012

No, it doesn't show EVERY flight. If you look at the illustration, you will see that South American, Africa and other regions are blank.

It's also not a new application. I've had it for the iPad and iPhone for over a year.

[Corpilot]

05:43 PM on 09/18/2012

Yea about that....there is virtually no radar in those regions ....exactly how would you propose tracking those flights?

[paulrm]

05:03 PM on 10/10/2012

Since it doesn't actually work by radar, you might want to take a look at the "help" files in the app. They actually ask for people to buy the receivers and put them online to assist in tracking those areas.
Regards

[SwiftJonathan]

10:30 AM on 09/18/2012

Wow... that's EXACTLY what I wanted for my birthday! Thank you sooooo much!

:-)

[P51MUSTANG]

10:02 AM on 09/18/2012

This should put an end to all the "Chemtrail" conspiracy people.

Now they can check a flight passing over and see it's simply a commercial flight.

What? They claim this is a disinformation campaign too?

*sigh*

[IndyGuy]

03:15 PM on 09/18/2012

I work with a "tin foil" type and believe me he'll just say the chemtrail aircraft aren't listed with the gov. They always find a way to keep their conspiracies alive.