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I am the co-founder of Planefinder.net. We’ve been tracking aircraft since 2009.

Good work!

Love it!


My house is below a rural MOA airspace and occasionally gets buzzed by extremely low flying military aircraft. It can be window rattling, ground shaking and heart rate elevating. Do you know of a way I can get an alert even a little bit before that happens? Is it theoretically build-able with existing data?


Game recognise game ;)


Enterprise support has been useless as is the status page. Got more info here


The status page shows about as much information as the post here.


It didn’t at the time.

Their phone line kept cutting us off and then the people there were not too helpful.


Status page was down for me in Sydney


We actually added this as a feature to our sharing software at Plane Finder using our own modelling. If you sign up and then view your stats on the web you can compare your actual to the predicted. https://planefinder.net/coverage


I wonder if it can support more than 3 Bluetooth connections like the current one!


I am constantly wondering why the fourth controller doesn't seem to pair. Thank you!


I guess we are in that 3% then!

But 50% of our traffic has gone!

Hopefully you are still working on it!


We're definitely still working on it. Sorry you're affected by this. We're talking with the network providers involved. If anyone from the Verizon NOC is online... call me!


I've had FiOS issues in PA since around 6:30AM impacting a decent fraction of sites. YouTube was down for about 5 minutes. Slack still very flaky. A client who hosts a 5-figure number of domains on Cloudflare still unavailable to me, but the pagers didn't start going off so presumably it is isolated. Thanks for all the updates.


Another PA Fios user, same here. 8.8.8.8 is mostly ok, 1.1.1.1, intermittent high latency in general, cloudflarestatus.com not loading.


Confirming widespread FiOS issues in NYC as well, not limited to CloudFlare IPs.


If I had the guess, the leak was probably for a huge range, maybe a /4 or something. Verizon is also notoriously bad about dealing with BGP stuff, so I wouldn't be surprised if they have particularly bad filtering.


Same FIOS issues for me. Any idea how this is all related?


Having connectivity issues with Verizon FIOS in Massachusetts this morning as well


We're also seeing 60%+ of our traffic missing. It intermittently comes back up.


Thank you!

Lee (CTO @ Plane Finder)


Hey Lee,

Just took a look at your website, I was looking for some kind of historical flight data provider.

Clicked on the "Historical Flight Data" link and it just links to a couple popular flights which in turn link to pages with a few pieces of flight data visualized/available.

Clicked on the "Commercial Services" link and it details a few commercial services including "Historical Flight Data" which says

> Looking for historical flight data? Plane Finder historical flight data is available in 5 minute or 1 minute intervals dating back to 2011 and is delivered as flat files in CSV format.

"Historical Flight Data" isn't clickable, and I don't want to fill out a form ("Contact Us"), so I click on "View Products" which just links me to your downloadable apps.

Apologies if there's something I'm missing.

I'm trying to get a look at API docs and pricing, and sign up and get started without having to "contact your team."


Check out our app Plane Finder 3D https://planefinder.net/3D/


When I saw what you were doing I thought "oh so you point your phone at the sky and it shows commercial planes around you as dots over the horizon" (or something). Then I saw the living room visualization and I realized that's not what you meant by AR. That could be a nice feature though (just a suggestion).


I would if you had an Android version.


Is there ARKit for android? I thought that was a set of Apple APIs.

Or are you just trolling?


ARCore is Google's equivalent.


It’s called ARCore


Hi there,

I am one of the creators of Plane Finder 3D.

Plane Finder 3D is the latest of our creations. We are a small team of 4 based in the UK and created the first flight tracker for iOS back in 2009!

The new AR (ARKit) mode just looks so awesome! . We use our network of thousands of ADS-B receivers around the world to feed this app it's data. You can project the airspace onto a coffee table or anything flat actually (moving car roofs are not recommended!).

All you do is then move your iPhone/iPad around and you can zoom around the "sky" with your device! You can see more info at https://planefinder.net/3D/

Hope you like it!


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