To bloody hate flight radar

[witchofzog]

I am away at the moment with friends in a house about half hour from the nearest airport. It's a huge European airport. They have all gone inside for a snooze and I am outside on a sun lounger to read my book.

Except I can't read my bloody book cos it turns out we are on the flight path and there are loads of planes passing over. I seem to have developed a bit of an obsession with wanting to know where planes are going and have come from so I can't even read more than a couple of pages without having to flick back to bloody flight radar to check. I do this at home too but the planes seem to be every hour or so there. Here it's relentless.

I have already broken off twice from this post to work out that the planes passing are from Munich and Gothenburg respectively. This enhances my life in no way at all yet I can't help myself.

It was Mumsnet who told me about Flight Radar. Who do I complain to?!

Im aware of how nerdy that sounds. I suggest reading all comments in a Steve Urkel voice for effect.

I’m in Dublin so lots of transatlantic planes track over us, we play the game of what plane it is, altitude and where it’s going and then check Flightradar24. I also use marine traffic, love it for tracking the boat to France. I use blitzortung.org for lightning and windyty for weather, air pressure, wave height etc. they’re all great especially when you’re tracking family going abroad. Skies quiet here at the min.

I bloody love Geoguessr but had forgotten about it dammit.

Flight radar I like. No major flight path near us, but there is a wee local airport and a couple of gliders parked up :D

I remember there is also a car app. Can't remember what it was exactly, maybe car share? but you can see where people are exactly on the roads...maybe someone else knows the one I mean. It was a while ago I used it

This is another good one - help archaeologists locate and protect sites, using satellite images;

www.globalxplorer.org/explore

I think i will win the nerd alert! I even have a plane spotters book which I tick off the planes I have seen...I got it for the kids really

I live under a flight path as well. Maybe I could rent our house out on Air BnB and add that as a plus point.

Just tracked an RAF one from Gander (?) in Canada to Brize Norton. I've no idea why.

The place where I work is on the flight path to/from Manchester airport. I consider it a great day if I go out for my fag break and the A380 goes overhead.

I love Geo Guesser, too!

Swedish - I've mentioned this on MN before, but I hear ya with this

Just tracked an RAF one from Gander (?) in Canada to Brize Norton. I've no idea why.

I track planes from their destination and to it's end and pretend I'm going on holiday with it
Get off in say Tokyo or whatever, google street map view, have a walk about and find yourself some restaurants and google the menu etc lol
I think I've just outgeeked half the thread but I don't care as its escapism,virtual holidays are fun as you can sightsee and spend bog all money

@CadyHeron

Love it!

Ha ha - love the idea of a virtual holiday.

@YesItsMeIDontCare Hello from not very far at all!

Omg op - I thought I was the only person that does this!!!! My dh says I'm a loser! I get particularly excited if a jumbo jet goes over - we are on the transatlantic flight path to the Central America and the carribbean. I can't wait to tell dh there are loads of us that do this....

You bastards, you've got me hooked now!!

:)

Wow this is a great thread.
I am in the West of Ireland so the transatlantic flights are always coming and going over us, I love the AR view feature on Flightradar24 to see all the different flights, especially in the morning when there are loads of flights.

Dh and I are avid flight radar fans much to the horror of our kids (we are on a flight path to one of the UK airports so plenty to see)
Just told him about the shipping one and he has gone very quiet and staring intently at his ipad.....

My name is Meglet and I bloody love Flight Radar and Lightning Maps.

I always try and figure out which oligarch or A-lister is flying into Farnborough on their private jets.

Me too. Got it from MN sometime last year, (or even the year before - don't remember). Live under the LHR flightpath and was very much an airline person, (Dad, Mum, Me, Brother, Husband, Mil, SiL and many friends - all worked for BEA/BOAC/BA/ SAS and EzyJet!!!)

Summer afternoons or early mornings when it is just me awake I'm tracking the first planes in. Love it!

Ooh, I love flightradar! Before we flew to Canada last year I tracked our flight just to see how long it actually took and where it went. It was amazing. Took off about 1pm, landed in Calgary about 10pm. Seemed an age. Loved the flight when we actually flew. Was on the bus this afternoon when I found this thread and had to go on flight radar straight away, had forgotten all about it. When DDIL took DGDs to Sweden a few years back just had to track the flight to make sure they got there ok. We're under a busy flightpath, luckily for me.

CadyHeron - I do this!! (But had never thought to link up the flights and the streetmap -. Genius!!)

Was "on holiday" in Spitsbergen yesterday.

I've got flight radar, lightning strikes and QuakeFeed.

And now you tell me there's a shipping one too???
That's my life wasted!

Omg CadyHeron I think I may go off on a "holiday" tonight what an amazing idea.

Last summer my late DP was in the hospice at the same time as my best friends stepdad. Her stepdad used to be wheeled into the garden in his bed and DP my mum and I joined them. Friends husband used to sit by the bed telling his father in law where the planes were going. Mum couldn't understand till son in law explained. DP spent many happy hours in the hospice on FR. Mum and I use it now a lot too!

I’ve just redownloaded the app - AND IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT!!

I love flight radar 24. We have a plane come over every night at 20 mins past midnight. It sounds slow and heavy and quite low. It NEVER appears on flight radar!