Great new App!

[gehenna]

For anyone who is interested in passing many hours tracking a/c, there is a great new App.

Similar to 'Flightradar 24' but with far more info - it's available on the ipad (not sure about Android) and is from the UK National Air Traffic Service; search 'NATS.'

Enjoy wasting many hours!

[G0ULI]

This is indeed a nice app to have on an iPad. It is still in beta test version, but looks good on the screen and contains lots of useful information. One advantage over enthusiast based systems is that data is apparently provided by NATS. That may or may not be a good thing, depending on how paranoid you are.

[ExXB]

Not on the Swiss store ...

[G0ULI]

Turn off GPS and tell the iPad you are in London!

I think you can log into other app stores. Since this app is free, there won't be any money changing hands, so if you can find a way of logging into the UK app store, you shouldn't have any problems downloading a copy.

[ExXB]

Changing app stores has many unforeseen results. Like losing all your paid apps from the original store. Not to be taken lightly.

[G0ULI]

It may be possible to grab the app using iTunes on a PC and then upload to your iPad. That might avoid changing apps store settings on the iPad. As far as I am aware, once you have an app, it continues to work wherever you may be. The best thing about this app is that it is currently entirely free, unlike other offerings.

[Mike6567]

When a police (I think) helicopter is going round and round above our area it dosen't show on this or Flightradar.
Not being a specialist in this sort of plane spotting can someone explain?
I assume it is a good thing as criminals are unable to monitor police airborne activity.

[G0ULI]

The details of certain aircraft are suppressed at source, for obvious reasons.