This search engine will BLOW YOUR MIND. Just go to wolframalpha.com and type in something like "Flights visible from Montreal, Canada" or wherever you live. Not only will it tell you what planes are above your city right NOW, it'll also tell you where they're going, how high they are, what time they took off vs. what time they were supposed to take off, and a million other things.
This search engine makes Google look like a clumsy child compared to a neurosurgeon.
It seems unusable to me:
ReplyDelete1) You can't use lat/long coords, you have to use a known city
2) The maps are so small a 500mph jet is gone in minutes
3) The skymap is worse
4) The table doesn't show direction
5) It doesn't differentiate jets from nonjets
I've been trying all day and haven't had one unambiguous success
Hmm,
ReplyDeleteI didn't quite go into it with that much detail in mind. I think flightaware.com might have what you're looking for. For me it's more of a novelty than a real resource.
I thought it would be like http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/index.html
ReplyDelete(for the ISS) and let you run out at the right moment to see jet overflights, knowing where they came from and where they're going. But it's so awkward I couldn't pull that off.