Is Radar24 accurate? Every air enthusiast seems to be addicted to the thing!

[FlyingVisit]

I've not seen it but read on another forum that all air enthusiasts are gazing at Radar24 to watch airspace. Surely you can't see all the flights in the sky in real time can you?

[Airclues]

FlyingVisit

It is very accurate, although about one minute delayed. I live on the approach to the easterlies at LHR. Zooming in, I can locate my house, and watch the little yellow planes fly over. The little yellow planes pass over about a minute after the real thing.

MPN11

Have you ever heard the phrase "live and let live"? After 45 years of aviating, I'm still an enthusiast, and love watching flightradar24. And yes, I do have a life!

Dave

[ExXB]

I think it depends on ADS-B broadcasts, which is only about 60% of commercial aircraft. State flights, military flights and GA normally don't use ADS-B so ... it is accurate, but not complete.

[MPN11]

OK - apologies all round. :uhoh:

I guess a large part of life watching little dots moving around, and telling them what to do, has dulled the edge of my excitement ;)


Fly safe, people.

[Airclues]

Although the arrivals for 09L fly over my house, the noise from 95% of them is not a problem. When the other 5% come over, a quick look at flightradar24 always shows that they are failing to achieve a CDA.

Dave

[lucavigg]

I live in between the Ockham and Biggin holds for Heathrow and have a similar thing on the iPhone (Plane Finder).

When the ash cloud thing was all happening it was extremely accurate. As the flights were starting to arrive back at heathrow on that first night when Willie Walsh told the CAA to go take a flying @%#! and the following day, when I heard a plane overhead, I could see it right over my location on the Plane Finder map and tell where it had come from and what the passenger in seat 21J had for their meal.

These iPhones are amazing!!

[L'aviateur]

A lactose free vegetarian meal?

[PAXboy]

and, one day, the passenger in seat 21J will be looking at their moving map screen and zoom in on a house below and wonder what that person is looking at on the iPhone ... :E

[sirwa69]

It only seems to work over Europe, is there an equivalent one for the Middle East, it would be handy to spot where the AC are while waiting to pick up passengers. The local flight arrivals is dreadful. :*