Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
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Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
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Re: Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
#2This is quite cool, seeing taking off planes appearing and rising is cool.
Some comments: - Is the Up axis correctly scaled? The ascent rate of planes taking off seems very steep - Planes landing seems to get "stuck" at the beginning of a lane at about 600 feet (tracking/radar cutoff?), maybe a fix the that slightly adjusts it to ground in a landed state if a plane "stops" or disappears from the data tracking.
Re: Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
#3This is amazingly cool
Re: Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
#4This is really freaking cool.
Two asks -
(1) you should default to a busy airport, eg. Atlanta, which is the busiest in the world. They have an order of magnitude more flights landing and departing. It seems random, but I keep getting New Orleans which is 10-20x less busy than Atlanta. ATL, SFO, LAX, ... That said, the topographically diverse places like Anchorage are nice too, and the height maps on the textures are fantastic.
(2) Higher resolution satellite titles would be awesome. I have a high density flight path directly overhead and I'd love to see where I live on the map and know which way to look in real time, but the textures are about 10x too grainy to make out my street / neighborhood. Maybe you can download some high resolution tiles for free that won't be a big performance hit?
Re: Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
#5This is quite cool, seeing taking off planes appearing and rising is cool. Some comments: - Is the Up axis correctly scaled? The ascent rate of planes taking off seems very steep - Planes landing seems to get "stuck" at the beginning of a lane at about 600 feet (tracking/radar cutoff?), maybe a fix the that slightly adjusts it to ground in a landed state if a plane "stops" or disappears from the data tracking.
Down at the bottom of the menu there's an altitude scale slider. It defaults to 1.2, changing it to 1.0 makes the trails look better.
Re: Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
#6Wow, great idea well executed, congrats
Re: Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
#7As a bit of a Flight Aware addict, well done.
Re: Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
#8This is really freaking cool. Two asks - (1) you should default to a busy airport, eg. Atlanta, which is the busiest in the world. They have an order of magnitude more flights landing and departing. It seems random, but I keep getting New Orleans which is 10-20x less busy than Atlanta. ATL, SFO, LAX, ... That said, the topographically diverse places like Anchorage are nice too, and the height maps on the textures are…
interesting, seems to be random. I've gotten Portland which was also not too busy but nevertheless enough to understand the beauty of it.
Re: Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
#9I love this, and would pay for native or electron app on Mac. Like Google Earth for global airspace.
Re: Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
#10This is really freaking cool. Two asks - (1) you should default to a busy airport, eg. Atlanta, which is the busiest in the world. They have an order of magnitude more flights landing and departing. It seems random, but I keep getting New Orleans which is 10-20x less busy than Atlanta. ATL, SFO, LAX, ... That said, the topographically diverse places like Anchorage are nice too, and the height maps on the textures are…
interesting, seems to be random. I've gotten Portland which was also not too busy but nevertheless enough to understand the beauty of it.
This thing is dangerous. It's going to nerd snipe me into a new hobby.
It looks completely accurate. I could see the medivac helicopters taking off, and it matched 1:1.
I missed a biplane flying over the city. And some other low-flying planes circling mysteriously.
If I had a telephoto lens and a way to alert myself of large planes flying low (happens frequently), C-130s, F-22s, etc. I think I'd waste way too much time.
I need to avoid looking into this more.