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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2015 21:12:47 GMT -1
Oz had sent me a link to this ages ago and I got the chance to use it this weekend  So much is said about the downside of the Web, and not enough about the benefits... what an amazingly good use of technology this is. www.flightradar24.comMs Rolo was off to Paree, negotiating her first ever non-direct flights, involving a change at LHR. It was SO great to be able to see her flight take off at GLA, then land at LHR-- and the connecting one leave and land at Orly in a record 50 mins! Except at one point for a few minutes BA 336 wasn't visible over the Chanel. WTF? But I quickly realised another wee yellow plane had obscured it from view, one flying miles higher than the other--- but nevertheless a major relief when her plane reappeared over the coast of France seconds later. Fantastic site I was on it for hours, really educational in so many ways. The routes over the North Pole are amazing! You can see all the major corridors too, across the busiest flight routes. And significantly, what airspace is being avoided...  Enjoy! I'm hooked--and I'll be tracking her return in a few days (but if you tell her that I'll have to kill you....  ) |
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Post by ozneil on Feb 15, 2015 22:55:52 GMT -1
Happy landings for Ms R and hope she has a good trip I have been hooked for years. Used it to follow Grandson on his travels its fascinating except none show over Indian Ocean  Even now depending on winds and whose turn it is we are under a flight path to & from Kingsford Smith (Sydney Airport) so I can be sitting on patio when a big jet whistles a over head. Race in look at puter ah its a QANTAS 380 en route to Dallas/Fortworth, a Air Canada 777 en route to Vancouver, a BA 747 en route to Singapore & London or could be "local" traffic a Virgin 320 en route to Coolangatta or a REX Saab 340 en route to some intra state destination such as Wagga Wagga. The long haul jets pass over us between 5,000 and 7,000 feet the short haul jets about 10,000 feet and the poor little SAAB Turbo props at about 5,000ft. In programme you can also click on departure and arrival Airports to see how close to time the flight you are watching is. PS Cathay Pacific A330 from Hong Kong has just passed overhead pps An Air Vanuatu 737 has just gone overhead flying to Port Villa |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2015 19:04:52 GMT -1
Brilliant isn't it? We're close to the GLA flightpath too, Oz, so I can now see traffic in the area on the website and spot it out the window! An extension of the olden days when my dad'd listen in with my wee bro to the radio and track his BEA/BA colleagues enroute in and out of Renfrew airport/later Abbotsinch. Must be in the genes, I guess. Makes me want to get going off somewhere though. And as luck would have it, I've been invited to a conference this summer in yet another country I've never visited. Latvia! I so enjoyed my first visit to another former Eastern Europe state (Estonia) a couple of years ago I can't wait to visit Riga next door. Gah! So many amazing places still to visit--Budapest, Vienna, Prague, Rome all high on my list. I've been so fortunate to visit so much of Europe, US and Aus for work, I got the travel bug years ago. I could easily just 'take off' for months at a time--if I won the lottery or something. |
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Post by ozneil on Feb 17, 2015 19:29:49 GMT -1
Lucky you off again when is it happening? Now add this to another window www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=YSSYIts set up for SYD approach but I see bits at side that let you choose other airports so prob GLA there www.liveatc.net/flisten.php?mount=yssy_app&icao=yssyPart of my considerations as a kid when choosing a career was finding one where the qualifications were recognised world wide. I did but dient get enough travel only lived in 3 countries UK, NZ and Oz with brief visits to others. Still love to travel and look up whenever a plane passes over and wish. I always get the hell of a buzz getting out ot the airport in a "new" place On one of my travels, not exotic, but on business to a place called Prosepine in North Queensland, I jumped into the hire car and headed off to the site. Came to a road junction at exit to "airport" and didnt know which way to go, couldnt see 10ft high sugar cane as far as eye could see. Had to to back to Avis Lady and ask directions to get out of airport, What an idiot but a real laugh. Proserpine Airport terminal was about the size of a service station and the only service desk put up sign for the airline that was due. From memory I think it was Ansett. Same with car rental desk. |
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