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Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D

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Re: Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D

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Post by hbcondo714 »

coolwulf wrote: post #2

Creator here. I posted Flight-Viz a few days ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603966 ) and the feedback was great. Since then I added a cockpit mode that follows any liveflight with real 3D terrain. How to try it: go to flight-viz.com, click any plane, then click "Cockpit" in the action buttons. You'll get a first-person view wit h real buildings, terrain, atmosphere, and a HUD showing altitude/speed/head…

Gorgeous! I can search flights at LAX but I don't see the smaller airports around it like SNA or LGB listed. Any chance those could be added?

Also, is there by chance a way to do historical flights?

Re: Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D

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simooooo wrote: post #33
coolwulf wrote: post #2

Creator here. I posted Flight-Viz a few days ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603966 ) and the feedback was great. Since then I added a cockpit mode that follows any liveflight with real 3D terrain. How to try it: go to flight-viz.com, click any plane, then click "Cockpit" in the action buttons. You'll get a first-person view wit h real buildings, terrain, atmosphere, and a HUD showing altitude/speed/head…

Can you make it so "exit cockpit" navigates to a route rather than execute a back on the browser, as it takes me back to the hacker news page when I push it. Also took me about 5 minutes to find the cockpit view button after I'd selected a flight but that might be a me problem :)

Thank you for the suggestion and I just modified that behavior.

Re: Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D

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Post by coolwulf »

hbcondo714 wrote: post #41
coolwulf wrote: post #2

Creator here. I posted Flight-Viz a few days ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603966 ) and the feedback was great. Since then I added a cockpit mode that follows any liveflight with real 3D terrain. How to try it: go to flight-viz.com, click any plane, then click "Cockpit" in the action buttons. You'll get a first-person view wit h real buildings, terrain, atmosphere, and a HUD showing altitude/speed/head…

Gorgeous! I can search flights at LAX but I don't see the smaller airports around it like SNA or LGB listed. Any chance those could be added? Also, is there by chance a way to do historical flights?

I just added smaller airport. (for now I turned off airport overlay as default since it get a little clutterd but you can turn it on. or you can search the airport code in search bar)

Re: Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D

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Post by neilv »

Before browsers were up to this, I implemented something related, using Google Earth Plugin.

You could load up the flight data recorder data (which contains more parameters than ADS-B), and watch 3rd-person view animation of a 3D model of that aircraft's movements as it flies over terrain. With instruments, plus visual annotations of flight path over terrain.

One kludge I was proud/relieved to find: At the start of the flight, there's a zoom in to the aircraft on the ground, from the Earth view, and then a particular dance of the camera around the aircraft itself. The purpose wasn't to try to look cool at the time, but to make sure that the plugin would render the aircraft model at all, before we started to change the position or orientation of the model. (The plugin was overly aggressive about deciding some annotations weren't in the scene. Once this camera dance ritual forced the plane into the scene, it stayed in the scene, even as it moved and twisted, and as the camera moved with it.)

Re: Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D

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Post by hbcondo714 »

coolwulf wrote: post #44
hbcondo714 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gorgeous! I can search flights at LAX but I don't see the smaller airports around it like SNA or LGB listed. Any chance those could be added? Also, is there by chance a way to do historical flights?

I just added smaller airport. (for now I turned off airport overlay as default since it get a little clutterd but you can turn it on. or you can search the airport code in search bar)

Thank you!

Re: Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D

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Post by d3Xt3r »

coolwulf wrote: post #2

Creator here. I posted Flight-Viz a few days ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603966 ) and the feedback was great. Since then I added a cockpit mode that follows any liveflight with real 3D terrain. How to try it: go to flight-viz.com, click any plane, then click "Cockpit" in the action buttons. You'll get a first-person view wit h real buildings, terrain, atmosphere, and a HUD showing altitude/speed/head…

Any chance of adding real-time sky and weather effects, using satellite imagery and weather data?

Re: Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D

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Post by _HMCB_ »

jimmydddd wrote: post #31
_HMCB_ wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is so cool. But on iOS, clicking the plane flashes the mini modal/popup but the it immediately disappears. There no way, on touch, to keep it open long enough to click a cockpit view button, assuming there is one.

I was able to do it on my iPhone. 1) Click on a plane on the map. 2) Click on "menu" at the bottom. 3) Scroll down to the bottom of info window and click on "cockpit."

Whoa! That was it. I expected a more prominent button for cockpit. I actually just thought those were labels. Thanks big time.
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