Amazing website!

[Globalti]

Ever looked up at a vapour trail and wondered where that aircraft was going? Just open this website and enlarge the map over your home: http://www.flightradar24.com/57

I have checked a couple of the flights against airline schedules and it's real time. Amazing!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Thanks for that, yes, that will be interesting!!

It even gives you the plane's registration, so you can start planespotting - I have just found a Lufthansa Whalebus A380.... but I'd need to ACTUALLY see it to count .

Anyway, thanks!

 

[ianrauk]

Brilliant. Great find. I love websites like this.

 

[LosingFocus]

No THAT would be a good AR app for the iPhone...

 

[Cheddar George]

Another great time wasting website for me, we bring in containers from the far east and i already spend too much time tracking ships on various websites.

 

[sdr gb]

No THAT would be a good AR app for the iPhone...

There is an app for that planefinder

 

[LosingFocus]

There is an app for that planefinder

Good lord! Excellent!

 

[Glow worm]

Ships!

Good lord! Excellent!

Wow - love it. Whoever's currently flying that 747 from Heathrow due north over Stornaway & supposedly heading for LA needs an A-Z or something!

Here's a tracking site for the slightly more sedate world of ships.

Ships!

 

[Spinney]

Fat chance of seeing contrails with the weather in NW England today - but I've bookmarked it for future timewasting!

Ta!

 

[Archie_tect]

Ships!

Wow - love it. Whoever's currently flying that 747 from Heathrow due north over Stornaway & supposedly heading for LA needs an A-Z or something!

Ships!

Just like a big version of Battleships!
[presumably the 747 pilot thinks he's following the most direct route to LA from London in a straight line over the North Pole, or he's got his TomTom the wrong way round]

Edit: just looked on Google Earth- you're right he's way off!

 

[dellzeqq]

Brilliant. Great find. I love websites like this.

there's one coming from your place to mine right now Ian - if it's going back I'll put the shirts on board!

 

[Glow worm]

And for International Space Station fans - there's this... http://iss.astroviewer.net/

 

[Glow worm]

[presumably the 747 pilot thinks he's following the most direct route to LA from London in a straight line over the North Pole, or he's got his TomTom the wrong way round]

Edit: just looked on Google Earth- you're right he's way off!

It's disappeared completely now !

(Really must do some work now)

 

[Archie_tect]

This is great!

 

[Theseus]

And for International Space Station fans - there's this... http://iss.astroviewer.net/

Water, water, everywhere. And not a drop to drink.