Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D

Posted by coolwulf 3 days ago

Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D(flight-viz.com)

106 points | 23 comments

tetris11 18 minutes ago|

I'm currently flying at Mach 10 on a custom call sign, breaking all kinds of barriers on a single heading. I cannot be stopped.

https://flight-viz.com/cockpit.html?lat=40.64&lon=-73.78&alt...

nomel 1 minute ago|

If you wait long enough, it looks like things go very wrong around the poles.

coolwulf 3 days ago||

Creator here. I posted Flight-Viz a few days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603966) and the feedback was great. Since then I added a cockpit mode that follows any liveflight with real 3D terrain.

How to try it: go to flight-viz.com, click any plane, then click "Cockpit" in the action buttons. You'll get a first-person view wit h real buildings, terrain, atmosphere, and a HUD showing altitude/speed/heading — all driven by live ADS-B data.

Hao

_HMCB_ 55 minutes ago|

This is so cool. But on iOS, clicking the plane flashes the mini modal/popup but the it immediately disappears. There no way, on touch, to keep it open long enough to click a cockpit view button, assuming there is one.

lastdong 47 minutes ago||

This is so impressive, love it!

A bit of feedback: Clicking exit cockpit goes back to the previous page (in this case this HN thread).

Not sure if just me, but I really had to search hard for the actions under menu and the cockpit button.

grg0 5 minutes ago||

Double-clicking on an airplane should send you to the cockpit view imo.

batisteo 18 minutes ago||

You lucky, on Firefox mobile it does nothing.I can only see the one random flight, in this case already on the ground

grg0 5 minutes ago||

This is great, smart application of graphics and public data.

RichardHesketh 3 days ago||

The FlightRadar24 app has had this feature for quite some time. I like your implementation though - it’s very easy on the eye.

culi 8 minutes ago||

Paid feature though

coolwulf 3 days ago||

Thanks for letting me know. I actually didn't know about this feature in FlightRadar24 app.

Chrisszz 1 hour ago||

Commands are not that handy but from someone that has the flying in his heart since he was child I must admit that it's cool to have the cockpit view

rogerrogerr 31 minutes ago|

If you go hang out at your local small airport on a weekend, I guarantee someone will give you a ride. In the US, at least.

vixalien 44 minutes ago||

it doesn't seem to show most flights or airports in africa

gorfian_robot 1 hour ago||

I wish it had all the small aircraft not just commercial flights

mayneack 1 hour ago|

Pretty sure it does https://flight-viz.com/cockpit.html?lat=34.026608&lon=-118.3...

bigfudge 1 hour ago||

Is it possible to pan?

metabagel 3 days ago|

Perhaps this should be submitted under "Show".

wkjagt 1 hour ago|

Creator posted it as Show HN last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603966

Current post is by someone else

mikestew 1 hour ago||

Current post is from the creator (not that I particularly care one way or the other):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694065

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