FlightRadar24.com
 

So I was listening to liveatc for LAX and I heard EVA 154 and EVA 130 over the ground radio. However, when I checked flightradar 24 and flightstats both flights were not present. Do any of you know the details of these flights?:confused:

EVA 130 operates TPE-KIX, there is no EVA 154.

Are you sure it wasn't Allegiant Air?
G4 130 operates AZA-SCK
G4 154 operates PVU-LAX

I'm 90% sure about EVA 130 as the voice had a slight Asian dialect. However, you might be right that it is Allegiant 154. The time was a little after 11PM.

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I like to pull up flightaware as they have a function where you can plug in an airport and see most activity (delayed a few minutes). Go to flightaware.com/live/airport/XXXX and replace the X's with your preferred airport such as PANC for me ;)

flightradar24 premium membership.... worth it?
 

Is it worth paying ?

There isn't much free stuff on flightradar24 if you don't have premium membership. But I am intrigued by its user interface design.

How would you rate flightradar24 and flightaware?

Let's ask the folks in Travel Tools...

I really like fr24 (not 23). I have a premium membership because I contribute an ADS-B feed to their network. I hardly ever use flightaware. I also have the (paid) fr24 app on my iPhone. Great app and I use it often when there's weather impacting an airport to see how many planes are holding and if/when they start diverting.

It also has a cool AR feature where you can point your phone at a plane in the sky and it will show you the flight info for that flight. Fun party trick. :)

FlightRadar24.com
 

I guess I don't understand how to use the tool. I enter the carrier and flight number in the search box. It brings up the flight on a list by day. I click on it and it brings up a map of the part of the world where the flight is presently, but it shows hundred of flight icons without highlighting the one I'm looking for. Is there a secret to honing in on the one I searched for ?

Weird data on FlightRadar24 & FlightAware?
 

I have no idea which forum to put this in, so I hope this one is generic enough. My apologies to mods if I'm wrong though.

I was just checking FlightAware to see which specific BA 744s usually make the LHR-ORD run. (my goal here being confirming whether they have the new F class or not)

I was scrolling through the flight log data when I noticed what looks like a quick and sharp change in altitude.

At 9:38:22am, the plane was logged at 34K feet. The log then shows it climbing to 47K feet and back down to 34K in less than a minute. :eek:

I'm a total novice when it comes to reading flight tracking logs, but I really hope that's not an accurate reading. A quick check on FlightRadar24 made me nearly panic, as its radar track stops with the plane well short of its destination and an altitude of 0. :confused:

Obviously, I can tell from the radar and the BA site that the flight is just fine. But, could that sudden altitude change just be a data glitch?

/sorry for the dumb question
//just trying to shed light on my own confusion

It isn't. :) Sometimes these tracking sites get garbled data.

Balloon on FlightRadar24?
 

Anyone know what this is, or how I can find out more?

Oh, answered my own question.

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/k...loon-balloons/

Interesting link, thanks ^

How reliable is flightradar24? [Checking routes]
 

I'm looking at some intra-Africa travel next week, LOS-ABJ, and the 'usual' OTAs (kayak, expedia, etc) aren't very good at picking up the smaller regional airlines. I've been looking at arrivals and departures at the two airports on fr24, and have found an Arik Air flight (W3 394) which is listed as departing LOS, but has no corresponding arrival info for ABJ.

That flight at that time between those two airports is listed in Arik's schedule found online here, but Abidjan doesn't even show up as a possible destination on their booking engine - which this being Africa, means nothing really either way.

So before I spend an hour on the phone to Arik, how reliable is fr24? Is this flight likely to exist?

Thanks

As you're looking about specific information pertaining to flightradar24, we'll move this to our Travel Tools forum.

~beckoa, co-moderator Information Desk

Its realiable in the sense that you'll get a ticket. Once you get the booking it will be best to get the flight confirmation number and then email or call the airline directly to select seats (basically the reason for this call will be, while selecting seats, ask them if everything is okay with the ticket and everything is confirmed).

But expect it to be fully non-refundable and non-changeable so only buy it if you're sure.

Actually, it looks like it's using a lot of old stored data for schedules, so there are lots of flights with 'unknown' historical data, even while future flights are 'scheduled', that don't exist anymore. Rats.

FR24 depends on independent trackers everywhere worldwide. The coverage in Africa is very low though. I wouldn't pay much attention to that.

Heads up: report of data breach at flightradar24.com
 

It seems that a data breach at flightradar24.com has affected a proportion of their user base.

Please tighten your passwords and assume the brace position, says plane-tracking site ? The Register

Flightradar24 live tracking problem
 

If I look at flightradar24 flight history, it used to be that if the flight was in the air the map would reload showing the flight in question. For a while now this hasn't happened and the map remains on whatever area I last looked at. I can zoom out and eventually find the flight, but is there a way to make this happen automatically? I've cleared cache/cookies to no effect.

I'm using Firefox 65.0.1 on Win10 Home if that makes any difference, but it's the same using Chrome.

In the info box below the map, right below the time on the left, is a button to control whether the map tracks the plane or not.

I can't see what you're saying. (maybe it's me!). Can you point out the button in a screenshot or something?

This is what I'm looking at just now if it helps.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ek27

Circled in red

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...0eb3b8f667.png

Thanks, but that's in Playback mode and moves the map as the playback progresses (up to the current point if the flight is still in the air). It doesn't update it real time as I'd seen before, which I saw immediately on loading a flight, not in Playback mode.

For that flight I used to watch it live on line and could look out the lounge window in GLA at exactly the right time to see it land.

Hi, hope I am reading you correctly.

This is the outbound tonight, the plane is highlighted in red and the scroll options to the left are displaying the flight info as usual.

Note FR24 have done a few enhancements /updates. Inc if you have a 'myflightradar24" account it now shows a 'Frequent Flier' section (who has been / is on that flight). Note the new last drop down in the image I have attached .

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...747ffef588.jpg

That looks more like what I was expecting, but not quite. When I go to the page, the map doesn't automatically center on the flight and follow it real time which is what I saw before. It also doesn't show other flights in the air at the time which is not an issue. My screenshot here shows my screen after zooming out until the plane came into view, and it's not updating real time without a manual refresh. This was the address I was at and I was not logged in.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ek384


https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...aef161472f.jpg

Some new options were added to FR24

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/a...htradar24-com/

Very cool that you can now see whether a FR24 user is on a certain flight and who ha flown the route the most.

If you use my.flightradar and you do not want this info to be public/shared, you can easily toggle it off there under settings.

Odd Flight Path on Flightradar24 - AA 1075
 

I’m waiting for this inbound from ICT to take me to DTW.

After closer look at its flight path here to DFW it appears the pilot thinks his mad dog is an F-15?

Lol

Can that path be accurate?

Look at the same flight on FlightAware.

Might check FlightAware...

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL1075

Thanks for the replies. That looks more doable.

I was referencing my Flightradar24 app.

I'll reference flight aware in the future.

Looks like flight crew was avoiding weather.

I suspect the app you used was missing some data points.
On the other hand, one of those moves (the V shaped one) reminded me of the my former Navy insignia as an Operations Specialist
(In God we trust, all others we track and report)

https://www.navycs.com/navy-jobs/images/os-600.jpg

It looks obvious to me -- The pilot saw my beautiful garden and wanted to get a good look.

Is the noise present because the position data are approximate so as not to give away the precise position of the plane (or for some technical reason)? And does FlightAware smooth the data?

This would be important to know.

Anyone else notice an issue where my.flightradar24.com does NOT update details after flight, even when enabling the toggle that says "We can update this flight automatically after
departure to complete aircraft type and registration, together with any changes to scheduled times"? Has anyone ever seen this feature actually work?

In fact I have noticed this failure to update several times previously, but had written it off as user error or some other artifact, but most recently I flew DL3811 SLC-SJC on Jan 15th, which at the time I entered the flight, it was assigned to N250SY and my.flightradar24.com correctly pre-filled the info as such. However, eventually the flight ended up actually being operated by N244SY.

FR24 itself agrees with N244SY on Jan 15:

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/dl3811

but in my log entry at my.FR24 it still shows N250SY even though the flight was completed days ago.

I contacted support, including links to both FR24, and a link to the FlightStats event log showing the tail swap, and got an unhelpful reply back "I checked this flight on Flightradar24 [same FR24 link]. I do not see if the aircraft operating this flight changed. That is why it didn't change on MyFlightradar24 as well." :rolleyes: gee, thanks. (I mean, maybe I'm missing something -- does FR24 even show detailed event timeline info like gate changes and tail swaps the way FlightStats does?)

And unfortunately the event data at FlightStats is aged out now (or maybe just not accessible to a free account) so I can't just point them back to that page.

Anyone subscribing to Flightradar24?
 

Which plan are you guys subscribing to?