Google Earth Live Cockpit View of Planes Landing at Gatwick

[fork me]

Okay I have a question about the flight paths. Do flights tend to follow the same flight path? For example will a flight leaving Gatwick today for Barcelona follow the same flight path as the same flight leaving in 2 weeks time? I guess that take off and the approach to the airport may be slightly different depending on the other traffic in the area.

Not always, no, it depends on various factors, mainly the weather, flight paths change to avoid turbulence. Sometimes they also change to avoid congested areas, or areas that have become dangerous.

Flightdiary just puts the quickest great circle route, but flightradar24 actually uses live information from a box on the plane itself so it should be correct. Where it misses the runway, it usually means google maps isn't that accurate. Some airports always miss for that reason.

 

[Laughing Gravy]

I have this on my iPad, when a plane wakes me up at 3:00am I can find out which company runs it and shout at them, makes me feel better somehow

I have it on my ipad also and its brill.
Graphics are top notch

 

[BHA Swiifty]

need to download google earth. can't get cockpit cam ended up just looking for the biggest plane and clicking on it... this GREAT GREAT FUN

 

[Gazwag]

Oh god must stop, just watch a plane go over my house


Its extraordinary when you go across to america its likes a massive ants nest

 

[Seagull on the wing]

found this a few weeks ago also another good one is Live Ships Map - AIS - Vessel Traffic and Positions to check on ship movments around the world also can zoom on the channel to see whats coming in to shoreham

I see no ships....only hardships.....obvisiously no warships...

 

[papajaff]

You had me all excited thinking it was going to be a live view - it's just the Google Earth view using the real co-ordinates. Having worked on real flight-simulators (if that's not an oxymoron) for 7 years in the 80s, this would have been a revelation.

Rediffusion or Link Miles? I was at Rediffusion for 7 years from 1986. Best job I ever had.

 

[Bwian]

Rediffusion or Link Miles? I was at Rediffusion for 7 years from 1986. Best job I ever had.

What was the worst job you ever had?

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[Seagull on the wing]

I followed a flight from Rome to Stanstead...great, except when it was just coming in to land the graphics froze then up came the message 'Plane has landed'....I really wanted to see the landing....but hey ho....good viewing anyway.

 

[jevs]

This is fantastic, i can sit in the conservatory and look over all of Sussex from my gaf. The planes tend to stack over Lewes then head off north before turning onto the final approach over Hever way. Obviously this is only when they're landing from the east.

 

[Arun1664]

I see no ships....only hardships.....obvisiously no warships...

Strangely enough they do, its called Warship AIS (WAIS). They dont seem to show on this site but if you try "shipAIS" you can see some of the HMS's in Porstmouth.

 

[papajaff]

What was the worst job you ever had?

Emptying your piss bag