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Questions tagged [flight-tracking]

Flight Tracking is tracking a plane or flight in real-time. There are multiple techniques to track a flight. Examples of flight trackers are Secondary Surveillance Radar and the popular flightradar24.com site, that uses ADS-B stations to track their planes.

Flight Tracking is tracking a plane or flight in real-time. There are multiple techniques to track a flight. Air Traffic Control uses Secondary Surveillance Radar for example. But the popular flight tracking site FlightRadar24 uses ADS-B stations from all over the world, with most of them placed by volunteers, to show the plane's position, altitude, speed and much more.

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Does FAA track every plane at every airport?

I use Plane Finder app & noticed they have a “history” area where I can search airspace at a certain place and time. If I SEE a plane flying, but later check their timeline (on the app), it shows they weren’t flying. What does that mean? Is that…
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How does an airplane owner correct an airplane misidentification showing up on FlightAware?

I have a friend in Pennsylvania with a plane in Pennsylvania. FlightAware is currently showing his airplane in the Bahamas, when it is not. He wants to know whom to contact to get this corrected. I'm assuming it's in some database being use by both…
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Is it possible to get a list of flights at a specific geographic location and specific time?

I would like to know if it is possible to achieve a list of flights that flights above range ring (specific geographic location, range distance), for example the list of flights that passed above London at some date.
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Is there a site that tracks all flights?

Some of my flights are tracked on sites like Flightradar24 and others are not, regardless of flight plans being opened and closed. It would be nice to go to a website that tracks all flights, so I can review the flight dynamics after I land. I am…
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How low was this KC-135 near KIAB?

On 5-20-22 a KC-135 passed generally east-bound or northeast-bound near a park in Wichita KS (lat/lon 37.628321 -97.305618) at an unusually low altitude. Estimated below 2000' AGL. It may have then landed at nearby KIAB (McConnell Air Force Base)…
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What made the below flight path to have very low speed during the middle of its course

This is an ongoing flight details of my in-laws travelling from Frankfurt to India. I observe the speed of the craft is drastically reduced to 100mph and then picked up normal. Could someone please explain this? Thanks, Raj
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Is there any website which is offering free real time tracking data of flights?

Our customer always demand, and I think there is huge market of, live tracking data. We need to ease either our customers or their relatives that they have reached their destination safely. So as I was moving around, I found out that there are too…
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