track planes in real time, great site

North_West_Art

ever wondered what planes were flying over head? heres the link...
http://www.radarvirtuel.com/

muffler

Great site. Cheers.

ednwireland

google earth one here

http://ei7dar.com/aircraft.html

download the irish atc kml file on that page

(thanks to this thread in aviation forum http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055737052 )

North_West_Art

cheers, that google earth one is v interesting

LoanShark

I Love sites like this!

Good Call in putting it up!

shiibata

North_West_Art wrote: »

ever wondered what planes were flying over head? heres the link...
http://www.radarvirtuel.com/

Great site as have always wondered what airlines flew above us here, only one I would recognise, is the hairdryer on the Dublin-Carrickfin route
Some traffic jam above London.

muffler

A couple of times a year you can see (morning time) where maybe up to a dozen planes have passed overhead within the space of an hour or two. Someone told me that these were military planes taking the yanks home from a tour of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Id doubt if they would show up.

North_West_Art

I did spot some unmarked planes on that site alright, and wondered were they military jets, although 1 or 2 did state that they were when I clicked on them. County Donegal still has air corridors available to the military which DeValera agreed to during WW2, only above 10,000 feet.

Because of our location, we are right in the flight path of many trans Atlantic carriers, many of which take off at roughly the same time of day, so at any 1 time you could have flights from Frankfurt, Heathrow, Belfast, Manchester, Amsterdam etc passing over these parts within a 1 hour period. And likewise, at 4 or 5am, a good few flights coming the opposite direction will pass over us on the way to Europe; alot of the eastern sea board trans Atlantic flights take off late in the evening, their time.

I have flown over Donegal many times going both directions and on a clear night, the lights of the Mountcharles bypass are v easy to distinguish

ednwireland

track ships on these (slower i know)

http://marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?zoom=10&mmsi=477520300&centerx=-5.38295&centery=36.0145

shiibata

Bit lost on the Google earth flight plans, what airline is RYR02T EI-DHP F215,few RYRs on it, is it Ryanair even though I know they are FR.

irish1967

muffler wrote: »

A couple of times a year you can see (morning time) where maybe up to a dozen planes have passed overhead within the space of an hour or two. Someone told me that these were military planes taking the yanks home from a tour of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Id doubt if they would show up.

Just when I was reading this I opened up the site... hmmm wonder what this yoke is carrying. According to their website the do a lot of U.S military work

prettyboy81

Great link, some very interesting stuff on the number of different flights

sesswhat

irish1967 wrote: »

Just when I was reading this I opened up the site... hmmm wonder what this yoke is carrying. According to their website the do a lot of U.S military work

You can get information on a specific flight on this site.

irish1967

Isn't modern technology great ! now you can look up in the sky.. see a plane find out where it is where its going what type of plan get a pic of it.. then listen to an air traffic control site and hear it landing.

If they ever apply this technology to individual persons we r in trouble !!

PattheMetaller

Great sites. Here's another one for tracking shipping

http://www.shipais.com/currentmap.php?refresh=2&count=1&map=Belfast-Stranraer

rudedog

I used to decode a lot of this sort of stuff for years on the ACARS radio system from planes (Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System) read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Communications_Addressing_and_Reporting_System. As well as positional info in real time, ACARS could also give you really detailed information about the aircraft, like engine information, and all sorts of other data about the aircraft, also you could read txt messages from the pilots to the ground.

ACARS wasn't actually that complicated to decode with the right radio receiver, antenna and software, was a lot of fun and something worth looking into if you are interested in this sort of thing. Personally i used to use a lot of software from this lot:

Air Nav Systems (some great sortware for the DIY ACARS enthusiast). http://www.airnavsystems.com

Cheers.

irish1967

look what happens during an air traffic controller strike

everyone has to drive around us !!

bealfeirste5

North_West_Art wrote: »

ever wondered what planes were flying over head? heres the link...
http://www.radarvirtuel.com/

Great link, thanks!

icom

Here's another one:

http://www.flightradar24.com/

Dude111

North_West_Art wrote:

ever wondered what planes were flying over head? heres the link...
http://www.radarvirtuel.com/

I cannot believe the detail on that site!!

Quite amazing.... I will have more of a gander later

Thank you!

North_West_Art

its great isn't it... glad Im not on a trans Atlantic flight tonight with the weather just off our coast at the minute....

Mint Sauce

Remember looking at that site when the airspace was closed during the ash cloud, and then again in the days when it was reopened. Theres a crazy amount of traffic up there.

Deer Hunter DL

you can also track ships in realtime also www.shipais.com its quite interesting

North_West_Art

here is a better one again http://casper.frontier.nl/
click on the Dublin link, give it a few seconds for the planes to assemble, then hover the pointer over the plane. Over on the left, it will tell you the carrier, plane type and route its on. 15 minute time delay, so its not live