Flight radar app
In case youre sometimes wondering what was the plane flying overhead,or just like to watch air traffic This will do it https://fr24.com/apps Check out Flightradar24, the app that turns your ph...
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CavemanCharlie wrote:
Thanks for the links. It will give me something to do on a day this winter when I'm bored.
Check out flightaware.com. I feed data in to it with PiAware on a Raspberry Pi (details). It was a fun project to set up. It is not too technical, but just enough to keep me on my toes. Once it was running it is fire and forget.
Veebyes wrote:
...You start paying for the details that most of us don't want....
The cool thing about FlightAware is if you are a contributor, they give you a free Enterprise account.
Veebyes wrote:
You never know what you might stumble upon. While looking for my son's PHL to SEA flt last night I clicked on one that turned out to be a NASA 747 over Idaho. Wonder what they were doing?
I see that all the time! There is a lot of stuff that appears on my PiAware that does NOT appear on other apps like FlightRadar24 on my phone. I pick up military flights like refueling tankers out of Moses Lake on a regular basis.
Even more interesting is picking up the state patrol plane circling the hills at night. They fly up from the Medford airport (SW Oregon) to NW Oregon. Round & round & round and round for 4-5 hours at a time until 1am. Refuel in Longview, WA and circle a few more hours before heading back to their base. I am guessing they are looking for poachers, but who knows??? A bit unnerving having cops circling my area. Imagine if you had cop cars driving around the same couple blocks in your neighborhood for hours every night - same thing. Lights & sirens are one thing, but if a cop kept driving by and spying in your windows hoping to catch you doing something wrong.... Unnerving, but I guess that is the state of our surveillance society.
-Eric
