REALLY cool flight tracking website...
 

http://flightaware.com/live/

Check out their live status per airport:

http://flightaware.com/live/airport/KORD

Be sure to click on the map for local flight maps, and see every incoming and outgoing flight at your local airport!

really nice tool!

check out the flight going to tonopah from Las vegas.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/WWW221

Very very nice site. Thank you for sharing.

DC

Very, very, very cool! Best thing I've seen in a long time.

If you're tracking a specific long flight, using ScottC's link in one window and Google ---> www.fboweb.com (which uses Google maps for its tracking) would be the best of everything!

Edited to add: I have my airport's window open and the flight on the screen just went overhead six minutes ago)

From the site's faq: "The data displayed on FlightAware is typically six minutes delayed from real time."

Sweet site! Thanks for sharing! :D

It's the best thing since sliced bread! :cool:

Neat site. I could waste hours of time on this! :)

FewMiles..

This is pretty cool! Can see how like FedEx and UPS work at MEM and PHL, respectively.

ALL the flights landing now at MEM are FedEx and they're landing pretty close together timewise.

This is WAY cool! Now I can tell what's just flown overhead!

Really neat!

Very nice. You can also track planes flying in and out of airports that don't have commerical flights. (I assume it's only guys operating IFR )

Thanks for the link. I wasted quite a bit of time playing with the site. :)

Scott, like the others have said above: thanks for the great link ^ ^

Now I can waste more time than with FT alone :D

I'll set this up for Mrs. LAX-1K to check on my next flight later this week.

way kewl.

Nice ^

Great--thanks! I like the airport option and the 7-day history of a flight.

Very useful. The best flight tracker I've seen now.

WHOA! This is actually really cool... ^

I checked this out late last night and decided that FedEx should be my preferred carrier out of IND.

This site is a great resource...and a great time-waster. Now to exercise self-control at work so I'm not watching it all day...

Now we just need wireless on the plane for when they remove the map for the damn IFM.

wow, nice ^

Does this website have the ability to track the flight in a real time manner - without having to keep entering the airline and flight number in? If so I can't seem to find it.

Well, there went that hour! Very cool site. Looks like it's still in Beta stage. i may need a 12 step program to get over this thing. ;)

Thanks for the link. It's amazing how there are always new ways to waste countless hours :)

The map of the flight should open in a separate window. It should keep refreshing with position changes, but if it doesn't just hit Ctrl-R.

(Keeping in mind that, per the site FAQ, there is a 6 minute delay on the data)

Very cool for the US but it doesn't work on the rest of the world. :(

I got it now!

If you click on the map it then opens in another window and it works :D

Now I wonder if it is the actual track of the flight OR just the projected track. I will have to ask a friend to find out.

I'm pretty sure the tracks (live and historical) are real, and not projections. After a recent flight from DFW-EWR, I went to the website to see the historical track, and sure enough, it had a big loop in it where we circled over Virginia for 20 minutes in a holding pattern. Very cool!

Great site!
Thanks.

And it is the only free site that I have found that allows you to track private aircraft using call letters.

It gives actual positions - clicking the 'en route' link next to status, you get minute by minute lat/lons and altitudes.

Cool ^^^

Thanks, yet another thing to play with instead of working...

I'm glad people are finding this site interesting. I actually posted about it before, but the thread never took off for some reason. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...lightaware.com

It is a terrific time waster...

One other point: if you do a search for airport traffic, the site gives you the current and forecast weather for that station, albeit encoded in METAR or TAF format. Very helpful if you're checking possibly iffy destination weather.

It's not one of the best tracking sites I've seen - it's THE best tracking site!! It's hard to put it aside and do something else...

This flightaware is just too cool! I'll be back in about three years. :D

This is excellent. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. :)

Oh wow. OH... WOW! :D

Does anyone else stop and watch the live 3D map of the Bay Area they have at SFO? I think it is there to map approach routes in accordance with noise abatement laws, but I find it very interesting. I especially like how the different airlines' liveries are applied to the 3D aircraft models according to their callsign. I'd love to be able to recreate that on my PC.

Excellent site ^

How do you see that?? I can't find it.