Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Real-Time Flight Simulation


Real-time flight tracking website FlightRadar24 has added an awesome new Google Earth browser view that lets you view air-plane flights around the world in Google Earth.

Watching flights being tracked in real-time around the world on FlightRadar24's Google Map has always been a pretty amazing experience. The new Google Earth view now makes that experience supersonic.

To view a 3d model of a plane's flight in real-time just select one of the many plane markers on the live map. When the selected flight's details appear in the left hand side-bar click on the blue 'Aircraft view (BETA)' button at the bottom of the column. This opens a Google Earth window showing the plane in 3d and in real-time.

Awesome!

Via: The Google Earth Blog

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

That has been on Plane Finder for years!

Anonymous said...

This has never been available on Planefinder.

Flightradar24 is the first and original tracking site since 2006.

grahamswift_2000@yahoo.co.uk said...

Just tried it with the pro version. I can't find the button mentioned above

Anonymous said...

Pinkfroot use a similar system that is very good.

Squawk 0060 said...

Looks very impressive. Need to try this.

Anonymous said...

Flightradar24 is awesome. Have tried Planefinder but it isn't half as good.

Anonymous said...

I don't get why Flight Radar is better? This is on planefinder which has better coverage?

Anonymous said...

Where does Planefinder have better coverage? All they have is fake coverage, aircraft moving in 30 minutes after lost coverage. FAKE!