OT ... Google Earth - planes in air space shown

[Dave Horne]

I came across this in a Dutch magazine (Quest) ... if you go to http://radar.vlieghinder.nl you will jump through a few hoops and at the end be able to see all the planes in the airspace at the moment (at least in my part of the world).

 

The Dutch guys might find this interesting.

 

Over here it's common to first check http://www.buienradar.nl/ to see the storm clouds over Holland before going out on the bike.

[Gary75]

Interesting, I wonder if there is a UK equivalent to this website

 

[MuzikTeechur]

If you go on the google earth community pages (forums much like this) there are forums dedicated to all manner of geographic oddity and links to the sat shots of those oddities.

You can look at missle silos from the cold war, super-secret car test tracks, etc. And even planes in flight around the world.

You'll need Google Earth installed on your computer to access the links and overlays in Google Earth Community. Plan to spend a few hours.

[spcs]

Interesting, I wonder if there is a UK equivalent to this website

There is, view here: http://www.openatc.com/

Actually this displays planes from al over the planet.

It uses data from people who have a sbs-1 reciever (http://www.javiation.co.uk/sbs-1.html) then that gets uploaded to the openatc site. For terrorist reasons it's not completely live, but displayed with a delay of a minute or so.

 

http://www.kinetic-avionics.co.uk/images/description.gif

 

not sure if the dutch site also has that delay.