For those of you addicted to Flight Radar

[FilthyBiscuit]

Did you know there is a shipping equivalent?
www.myshiptracking.com/

Love this!

Yes indeed dear OP.

I look at both with frequent regularity. Though Vessel Finder is one I look at mostly. It amazes me how the shipping ones have more detailed inland maps, than other land maps.

Too addictive, but I love em both. Have to step away sometimes!

Do I need to go to the Priory? LOL.

I mean, i do completely understand why, but I feel a bit disappointed that the military planes which go over my area are not on flight radar

Love it!

Vessel finder you say?

Oh I love this! Thank you.

Someone needs to merge all 3. What a busy world we live in.

I wonder if I can play battleships with them 🤔

My dd would love this shipping app. We were at mil’s and she followed the progress of a ship by googling it and finding out its cargo. I have Flightradar24, all in all we’re a bunch of nerds 🤓

Also UK lightning maps is cool. Watch the storm strike down to about 5 metres. We watched them go off like bombs around our house in summer.

www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;ts=0;

@JulietTango if you're interested enough to pay £20 a year, 360 radar will give you the details of the military aircraft near you. DH is obsessed!

Love it. You can see traffic on inland waterways too.

Ooooh. I love this. I can see a port from my bedroom window and often hear the ships.

GraceVanPelt really? That might be worth looking into, thanks

Oooh. We had a stealth bomber fly over the house a few weeks ago, and we get lots of other random military planes.

I have all of the apps on my phone and I can spend hours down the rabbithole!

On a sort-of related note, star gazing apps are awesome too. Just point your phone at the sky and it tells you what stars/constellations/planets you are looking at.

Oh no, why did you tell me about this ? I think this could overtake my NASA habit

Love it! Thanks for the tip

@JulietTango yes, we had a Hawk circling overhead for about an hour last week, it was awesome. Used to get Chinooks regularly where we used to live, felt like you could touch them they were so close! If you want to take it even further you can buy a radio to listen in to the pilots and ATC like DH does

Thank you OP

God it's a good job I live as far from the coast as I do. I would literally get nothing done ever haha. Flightradar is a lifestyle.

We live on the coast and use these apps to identify the shipping we can see. Great excitement when we realised we were looking at the Queen Elizabeth!

I don’t get it, what’s so exciting?

It's not for everyone HotChocolate but if you're into it then you're into it.

It's not for everyone HotChocolate but if you're into it then you're into it.

Yup, this. Sums up how I feel about children, for example