You will never use flight aware again. You just launch Google earth and then go to this link and scroll down to "track a flight" then enter a flight # and click the "google earth" button to the right. Then, when the google earth comes up, put your cursor on the globe and you will see a control panel come up in the upper right corner. Play around with it! I had to uninstall and re-install Google earth (10% of instals need to be updated to the latest version) but it worked great after that.
http://www.fboweb.com/antest/ge/intro.aspx?old=1