No Fucking Way
This is the coolest thing I have seen in my entire life.
You know those flight tracking websites, where they use a slow java interface to give you sorta-current information on a flight, except the plane always seems to go off course in the map picture, which itself never updates?
Wouldn't it be cooler if it worked well? And could display multiple flights? In realtime? In 3d? On Google Earth?
Well, check this out:
http://www.fboweb.com/antest/ge/intro.aspx?old=1
You can track any flight in 3d, using google earth's ability to change angle from bird's eye to side view. You can also track all flights inbound to a handful of predefined airports.
Also, there is an hourly-updated list of EVERY FLIGHT IN THE WORLD. Holy crowded airspace, batman!
You owe it to yourself to check it out. And if you don't have Google Earth, you absolutely need to see that, too.
- reid
You know those flight tracking websites, where they use a slow java interface to give you sorta-current information on a flight, except the plane always seems to go off course in the map picture, which itself never updates?
Wouldn't it be cooler if it worked well? And could display multiple flights? In realtime? In 3d? On Google Earth?
Well, check this out:
http://www.fboweb.com/antest/ge/intro.aspx?old=1
You can track any flight in 3d, using google earth's ability to change angle from bird's eye to side view. You can also track all flights inbound to a handful of predefined airports.
Also, there is an hourly-updated list of EVERY FLIGHT IN THE WORLD. Holy crowded airspace, batman!
You owe it to yourself to check it out. And if you don't have Google Earth, you absolutely need to see that, too.
- reid