The ability to track an airliner by the registration number. For supported airlines, you'll be able to type in the registration (e.g., N12345) and track that individual airplane, even if it flies as an airline flight identifier.
For many airlines at non-US airports, we now display real-time arrival and departure times as well as flight status information. You no longer have to wait for for the flight to get close to US or Western European airspace.
Last summer, we began tracking (radar positions on a map) many flights in Western Europe. With these improvements, we are more than doubling the number of flights that we can show real-time positions for. Additionally, we now list aircraft types for European flights where previously we tracked the flight but lacked the equipment details and other flight/route/schedule specifics.
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MPDPilot From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 933 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (2 years 11 months 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 3799 times:
These sound awesome.
I have a question though, how does Flightaware.com do this? Do they have to have the controlling agency OK this and transmit the data? Or do they use their own equipment?
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KPDX From United States of America, joined Dec 2005, 2525 posts, RR: 3 Reply 6, posted (2 years 11 months 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 3358 times:
Quoting MPDPilot (Reply 2): I have a question though, how does Flightaware.com do this? Do they have to have the controlling agency OK this and transmit the data? Or do they use their own equipment?
Just looking over everything again, I was wondering the same exact thing. Can anyone shed some light on this?
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murchmo From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 157 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (2 years 11 months 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 3294 times:
Ya i like alot of the little changes. Under status and down on the duration it says "taxiing" and "Taxiing(pushed from gate xx minutes ago)" I don't remember seeing thiS before.
Braniff747SP From United States of America, joined Oct 2008, 2602 posts, RR: 1 Reply 8, posted (2 years 11 months 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 3293 times:
CGKings317 From Canada, joined Nov 2005, 303 posts, RR: 7 Reply 9, posted (2 years 11 months 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 3288 times:
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Quoting KPDX (Reply 6): Quoting MPDPilot (Reply 2):
I have a question though, how does Flightaware.com do this? Do they have to have the controlling agency OK this and transmit the data? Or do they use their own equipment?
Just looking over everything again, I was wondering the same exact thing. Can anyone shed some light on this?
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Where is this data from? (Back To Top)
FlightAware compiles, aggregates, and processes data from a variety of government sources, airlines, commercial data providers, as well as FlightAware's proprietary flight tracking network. FlightAware's proprietary algorithms calculate delay and arrival time estimates to offer the most up-to-date and reliable flight tracking data on the Internet.
panova98 From United States of America, joined Apr 2008, 280 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (2 years 11 months 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 2760 times:
Very well done, indeed.
Just wondering, why do they do all this? Who is behind this site? Sure is interesting to me, but how do they get the money to pay it? Am I paying something I'm not aware of?
nkops From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 2543 posts, RR: 6 Reply 15, posted (2 years 11 months 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 2182 times:
I've noticed since the upgrade, it seems to have problems tracking some flights.. ie, many flights show enroute when actually they have landed a long time ago (over 30 minutes).
AirframeAS From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 14150 posts, RR: 26 Reply 16, posted (2 years 11 months 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 2085 times:
Quoting KPDX (Thread starter): The ability to track an airliner by the registration number.
That feature isn't working. I think one has to be a member first before he/she can use this feature??
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MarcoPoloWorld From United States of America, joined Mar 2008, 600 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (2 years 11 months 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 1815 times:
Thanks for the update.
But FlightAware still seems to be inferior to FlightStats when it comes to tracking flights that don't touch the US or EU. I tried to query Cebu (CEB), and FlightAware came up with a blank departure list, whereas FlightStats readily showed all the scheduled flights arriving in and out of there.
Braniff747SP From United States of America, joined Oct 2008, 2602 posts, RR: 1 Reply 20, posted (2 years 11 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 1405 times:
But FlightAware still seems to be inferior to FlightStats when it comes to tracking flights that don't touch the US or EU. I tried to query Cebu (CEB), and FlightAware came up with a blank departure list, whereas FlightStats readily showed all the scheduled flights arriving in and out of there.
Hmmm....
Their service area is US.
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