classic33
Leg End Member
Haven't we been here before?
http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/amazing-website.83472/#post-1501154
http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/amazing-website.83472/#post-1501154
Find a ship. Any ship.
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Maz
Guru
That's amazing!
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
That's better than my son's company's one apart from possibly not showing (some?) military planes.
I've just listened to a landing at Leeds/Bradford airport while tracking it on my computer.
mcshroom
Bionic Subsonic
- Location
- Egremont, Cumbria
There's definitely some military planes on there. There was an RAF transport plane passing over my house a few minutes ago
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Thanks - now I'll know where the planes that fly over my house are from!
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
Only a select few though. It doesn't even show certain types of civilian plane and most military aircraft.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Tell us how you know.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
MDB is posting from a Cypriot military prison...
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
Because I have the mobile ap for my iPad and it tells you so.
Only planes with a certain type of receiver are shown on the site, and also it says that the planes on your screen are actually just a representation of where they should be on their flightplan, NOT true radar signals*. What it does say is that if you want to identify everything you see then you really need a radio.
The site does not show a lot of older aircraft like '707s, 747-100s, etc, smaller planes and light aircraft (practically anything with a propellor in other words), most Eastern Bloc aircraft like Ilyushins and Tupolevs, and most military traffic.
I have seen this for myself as we get a lot of Flybe Saabs and so on flying over, and they are not on the site.
Bad luck if you are wanting to see where the RAF VC-10s are too.
* - I presume they must get picked up at certain beacons, but if you use the site for long enough then you will see planes appearing in the 'wrong' part of the sky from where the site says they are, and also, you sometimes get 'Phantom Planes', which in reality must be delayed flights or similar.
lordloveaduck
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Birmingham
Do pirates use this?
Piemaster
Guru
- Location
- UK City of Culture
Think I was actually posting from one of the Companys ship when we had a thread on the AIS site before.
Only one I can find I've actually been that is giving out any info at the moment is this one.
AIS only uses VHF radio so is limited to coastal areas, as you can see from the world map. There are lots more ships out there that won't be on the site, though some Companies also have satellite tracking of their own vessels and even offer a service to let you track where your particular container is within their transport system.
on the road
Über Member
I've got that on my phone as well as Skyspy.
Bay Runner
Guru
asterix
Comrade Member
- Location
- Limoges or York
Last time I looked at this facility it was all a bit vague around Somalia for some reason.
