Casper is a brilliant mashup that displays movement of incoming and outgoing flights on a Google Map live.
The airplanes are colored based on the name of the airline to which they belong but you can also change their colors based on the altitude at which they are currently flying or the flight type (whether it’s an incoming flight, outgoing or in transit).
You can also click the icon of a moving airplane to see speed and height at which it is flying in real-time.
And if you are checking this service at a time where there isn’t flight traffic at Schipol Airport, just select one of the past days from the drop down to replay the entire flight movement for that day on your computer screen.
Casper is currently tracking flights that are flying in and out of the Amsterdam Airport but we do have similar services for visualizing air traffic at the Zurich Airport and RadarVirtuel that tracks flights for most European countries in almost real-time. GmapTracker tracks incoming flights for US airports of New York, San Francisco, LA, Atlanta, Boston and Chicago.
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Reader Comments
Hi Dear, Nice article, useful information.. i too did some research found some more cool mashups, thought of sharing to all the readers. link
Written by Rishil on 01.06.10
Cool one. Similar one also at flightradar24.com which shows all flts over europe. They use ADS-B data for flight tracking. Awesome, isn’t it?
Written by Tanmoy on 01.07.10
Gmaps Flight Tracker is another Google Earth / Google Maps based mashup for US airports.
The FlightStats Flight Tracker is another such service that lets you see the location of most commercial flights in US, Canadian, and European air space on a Google map. It will also displays altitude, position, speed and distance of the airplan from the nearest airport.
Written by GM on 01.07.10
My favorite is Aeroseek – it can tracks commercial airlines, cargo flights, general aviation flights and even private or charter jets. The flight information is displayed in 3D via Google Earth.
Written by Pat R. on 01.07.10
Thanks all. Will update the story.
Written by Amit on 01.07.10