Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Well about half my neighbours, who are all regular travelers, have it and they can't tell a 737 from a DC-8
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Yep, same with many of our nearest, dearest and closest. Our eldest daughter, very much a non total aviation person, used it a few weeks ago to actually get a credible handle of timings of a flight when she (correctly) sensed she was being the run around by a certain Orange airline's ground staff.
You've often also got avid flightradar twitchers popping up on all sorts of very much non-aviation social media portals these days to announce that they've spotted another one "gone red"
Have to say on one or two memorable occasions when trying to work during mass disruption Flightradar had a much more accurate idea of where the inbound flight was than sources on the other end of the phone in airline ops... for example,: "No, actually G-XX.... is not where I am right now, standing at gate XXX, it actually appears to be over Lands End........."