Is there such a tool that lets you see where an airplane is over the USA? Like shows you a map and puts the plane say over Neveda.

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Brian

Use the 'Track a flight' option at : www.rlmsoftware.com

There used to be a 'Flight Tracker' in the Travelocity website. I no longer see this feature anywhere in the website. Could someone confirm / clarify this?

Same thing at:

http://www.flightexplorer.com/

Lower left corner of initial screen.

Flight Tracker at www.trip.com is now merged with www.cheaptickets.com

http://www.cheaptickets.com/trs/chea...acker_home.xsl

This is really nice. Use the graphical version - type in the flight # and airline and you are all set.

MSP Flyer

Travelocity still has a flight tracker. It is really small on the right hand screen of the homepage. Look right underneath the travel alerts.




[This message has been edited by Rosebud9802 (edited 05-15-2003).]

Thanks & I do notice that. Does it track the flights garphically? Plus it appears that it is not working for me currently, gives the same status for all the flights.

It depends on what you mean by "tracking". Travelocity uses FlightView information from http://www.rlmsoftware.com/ You could go to that site and get the same information (and more since they carry a lot more airlines than Travelocity). Either way, the graphic that gets displayed is static. It will show the flight plan for the plane superimposed on a multi-state map that also includes doppler weather information.

The tracking info from Trip/Cheaptickets.com is dynamic. Meaning it shows a map with the flight plan and shows how much of the plan is complete. It also shows a larger map that covers 1-3 states with the airplanes present position...and if your Java is setup right, the plane moves. So, you will eventually see the flight guages (air speed, altimeter etc) change as the real plane descends for landing. Kinda spiffy if you want to watch your computer for the duration of the flight

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

You can try this

http://www.flightview.com/

Thats nice, lots of data. I like the 3 dimensional ac to ac rleationship on the FBO tracker. The track will be in a window to the left (temporary places) You have to doble click it and then when it shows the flights you can zoom in, change the aspect ratio so you are looking at the ac horizontally and then you will see a solid green "path". The cool part is the altitude relative to other ac is totally clear.

FlightAware.com is a favorite among pilots. Give it a look!

This doesn't appear to be updated in real-time.

FlightAware is at least updated in real-time, shows SIGWX/RADAR, shows altitude and the flight path. The Google Earth plug-in is cool, but FlightAware is better, especially if you have to meet the flight, say to pick someone up. FlightAware also has very good historical data.

WorldPerks forum or TravelBuzz! forum?

Yes you are correct, I did not see the "near real time" until you pointed it out. Nice technology though. The 3 dimensional flight path is really cool on approach and climb out, particularly when there are a number of AC in the area. I was going to post somewhere else but did a search on this forum and the string came up so I figured it was ok. Feel free to move it.

Flightaware can be blocked by the aircraft owner. This way you cannot see where the plane is headed! Ours is for this exact reason.