FlightAware web site -- finally free flight tracking

Gig 601XL Builder wrote:

"xyzzy" wrote in message
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Chip Hermes wrote:


Finally, there's a free web site that does tracking of IFR flights and
maps and graphs and whatnot:

http://flightaware.com/

For IFR folks, you can enter airports that you're flying between and
get a list of IFR routes that people have flown, which makes flight
planning a lot easier.

Chip


Let me pile on and say this site rules!!

Now I can see what my fellow club members have been up to



It is so damn cool we crashed it.

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Yes, I noticed that. It is in beta, hopefully when it goes production
it will have more bulletproof servers.

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"You can support the troops but not the president"
--Representative Tom Delay (R-TX), during the Kosovo war.

Wow, cool. It says all the data is publicly available. Any idea where
the site pulls the data from?

Wow, cool. It says all the data is publicly available. Any idea where
the site pulls the data from?

FAA website has all the IFR flight plan information archived.

"Chip Hermes" wrote in message =
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Finally, there's a free web site that does tracking of IFR flights and
maps and graphs and whatnot:
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http://flightaware.com/
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For IFR folks, you can enter airports that you're flying between and
get a list of IFR routes that people have flown, which makes flight
planning a lot easier.
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Chip

A great site!
I wrestled with the time zone a little before discovering the GMT =
choice.