On: Planes overhead

[dazbradbury]

I'm currently sat in Heathrow airport, one of the busiest airports in the world.

Result: none.

[mseebach → dazbradbury]

One of the key features of airports is the lack of planes overhead. Also, I think it only works in the US.

[Angostura → mseebach]

US only I thnk - I'm currently in East London with planes above me stacked for landing in Heathrow: Results: None.

Results: No Data Available would be a better result.

[dazbradbury → mseebach]

So you don't think there is any tolerance in place? ie. You have to be stood directly under a plane for it to be listed? Clearly not.

Shame it's US only, but I imagine it's difficult collating a full worldwide dataset.

[macuenca → dazbradbury]

I'm an aviation enthusiast also bummed by the fact that this feature does not work outside the US. I live in Spain.

Fortunately, this current thread reminded me to try it out while being close to Newark Intl. Airport (EWR) in New Jersey.

This is what I got and it changes every time I hit refresh, this is a very busy airport: http://i.imgur.com/VnDXH.png http://i.imgur.com/EhWBh.png

[plam → dazbradbury]

the program probably counts an airport as a flight path's end point. so none of the planes is counted as "in flight".