There are a slew of flight tracking sites available for free on the Internet, my newest favorite being...
FlightAware, which I have added to my Flight Tracking Links on Witsdom.
One of my favorite features on FlightAware is the animated twenty four hour flight analysis loop (note: you must have QuickTime installed to use this feature). It is so cool to watch the ebb and flow of the traffic over the course of the day.
I guess I'm not the only one impressed with this site, as some of the major broadcast networks have also starting using it, either alone, in in a mashup with Google Earth which you can access via this link (note: you must have Google Earth installed to use this feature).
And speaking of interesting mashups, if you go to the fboweb Aeroseek tracker, after you enter the flight information, on the results page, you are offered a button which will allow you to display the flight as a real time updated overlay on Google Earth.
And speaking of interesting mashups, if you go to the fboweb Aeroseek tracker, after you enter the flight information, on the results page, you are offered a button which will allow you to display the flight as a real time updated overlay on Google Earth.
On a related theme, this entry in the Google Earth Blog has a number of links which allow you to get all of the traffic for a number of major US airports overlayed on Google Earth.
Way Cool!
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Posted by David at November 26, 2006 11:57 PM