From: Martin S. <Mar...@mg...> - 2006-10-04 14:32:21
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Hi Stuart, "Buchanan, Stuart" wrote: > Some of you may have come across www.flightaware.com as a way to track IFR > flights. It uses data from the FAA radar system and provides products > (free and commercial) based on it. I see one drawback here: They really only track flights in the coverage of US American Radar. Explicitly they state "FlightAware is the first company to offer free flight tracking services for both private and commercial air traffic in the United States". ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Accidentially I came across this web site while googling for the registration of an aircraft that I spotted on the apron of Berlin Tempelhof (EDDI) last sunday (surrounded by police and a crowd of 6 or 8 black limo's). Our Cessna was No. 2 behind this flight .... FlightAware tracks the route of this aircraft until it leaves Canadian territory: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N14R .... but I would have loved to investigate the aerodrome of departure of this flight that ended at Tempelhof ;-) Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |