jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Clicking on that gives me a basically black screen, inviting me to sign up with FlightRadar. You have to add the -100.07/5 to make it work.

Stan Gould Loc: La Crosse, Wisconsin

The image is not realistic as the planes are also vertically separated with different altitudes. FYI aircraft above 18,000 ft have a 2,000 ft separation.

Canisdirus

lol...look at the symbols.

They aren't trying for realistic.

gpc

There are other flight trackers beside flightradar24.

I use one called adsbexchange. It color codes the plane symbols by altitude. Also, it has a "U" button to show only military aircraft. It won't show all military flights, but I have seen C5, C7, and C130 cargo planes, plus refueling tankers and coast guard helicopters. I don't think it will show Blue Angels or Thunderbirds flights.

LDB415 Loc: Houston south suburb

Hmm, I copied the URL and pasted. Not sure why it didn’t work correctly.

gpc

Here's the link:

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/

DakotaColt

Just at a quick glance at the picture of those planes covering the U.S. it looks like the wing span of each would be some 200 miles wide. Look at your state and think of the number of planes wing tip to tip. Looks like one of the 4 engine 747's over my state of Wisconsin would have one tip over lake Michigan with the other over a cornfield in Iowa. It's a matter of scale. Sure there's a lot of planes in the system but several years ago Paul Harvey, another pilot, had a little bit on one of his noon shows "the rest of the story". With all the planes in the country (including military) in the air at the same time - just about impossible - there'd be 'some # of square area, bigger than you'd think, for each plane, and that would have them at the same altitude, also impossible. Controllers and Captains do a great job. JimM

Bri Loc: NZ

NZ Herald 29 March 2022