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  • Wednesday, March 22, 2006
  • Come on, Mexico City!

    Check this noise out.  Live flight tracking.  That's cool.  Now click the link to load up the data in Google Earth.  This picture is a Southwest flight from Jacksonville to BWI that's in the air right now. Little bit more effort and we've got an online version of Kramer's "betting on the arrivals and departures" game. It updates once a minute, so its not real-time. But its pretty good.

    Aeroseek: Real-Time Flight Tracking

    Update
    Whoa baby! Its a real barn burner between USA2163 and CHQ3038 into National. Looks like the little airbus has the win locked up though, you hardly ever see a sudden overtake at the finish.

    Update
    Check out these guys. The ones on the right are competing American and US air flights to National out of Dallas Ft Worth. Oh, man! You can't see but UAS1642 just took a 90 degree turn straight at DC! AAL1330 is hurting to catch up, but he made the exact same turn and is lowering altitude. He's still going 25 knots faster than the leader... Oh man. Its a nail biter.

    Update
    Disaster for all you American Airlines fans out there. The Us Air flight threw a zig towards Virginia and then pulled a hard bank to head due north into the landing grid. The pursuer bit hard on the fake and took a full six and a half miles to rectify. Nice moves 1642, well won victory.

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    2 Comments:

    At 11:10 AM, Blogger Dee S. Nutts said...

    uhm, you know it's all up to the air traffic controlers, right? (those pilots just hit the speeds and bearing their told to to get in line at the proper time...just like on the ground.)

     
    At 11:13 AM, Blogger Dee S. Nutts said...

    Stop trying to ruin my fun.

     

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