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Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker

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Re: Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker

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Note from the developer: I’m so glad that many of you like this app. I’m a solo dev, actively building between my 9-5 and raising a 9mo. Please follow along on X https://x.com/benlimner , or join the mailing list for updates/suggestions!

What data source are you using? AeroAPI?

Re: Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker

#92
This is really cool!

Only enhancement I can think of would be the option of using the FAA published (and free) sectional maps instead of the satellite view. In combination with the 3d airspace you did, would be amazing!

Re: Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker

#93

This is really cool! Only enhancement I can think of would be the option of using the FAA published (and free) sectional maps instead of the satellite view. In combination with the 3d airspace you did, would be amazing!

Yeah that is a good move. I’ll add this to the short list

Re: Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker

#94

Very nice. My only feedback is that on a 2017 iMac (Radeon Pro 580), while rotating around, there is a brief hiccup every 1 second. Probably transferring data to the GPU periodically, but something is blocking rendering. Reproducible on Safari and Firefox. Not reproducible on Windows Edge or Firefox, on a RX 5700, where it's consistently smooth.

Thanks I still have a lot of optimization to do before this is smooth across the board.

It’s definitely a chrome-first app at this point.

Re: Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker

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Don’t use “loom” in your product/company name. ChatGPT LOVES to suggest it, and it makes it obvious you used it.

Can you expand on that for me, I’m not sure I understand what you’re getting at

Ask ChatGPT to generate product or business names for you. A lot of them contain the word “loom”. I know someone who recently vibe coded a thing and had an AI name it and it also has “loom” in it.

I’m not suggesting that that’s what happened with this project. I have no idea how much AI they used for any of it. But “loom” seems to appear in a lot of ChatGPT generated product names lately.

Re: Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker

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Can you expand on that for me, I’m not sure I understand what you’re getting at

Ask ChatGPT to generate product or business names for you. A lot of them contain the word “loom”. I know someone who recently vibe coded a thing and had an AI name it and it also has “loom” in it. I’m not suggesting that that’s what happened with this project. I have no idea how much AI they used for any of it. But “loom” seems to appear in a lot of ChatGPT generated product names lately.

I’ll have to look into that when renaming this. I didn’t do any product research before, and it looks like there are bike saddles, power generators, and mattresses all with the same name .

Any good name suggestions?

Re: Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker

#98

Neat project. Minor usability note, zooming by pinch on a MacBook trackpad is painfully slow.

Thanks for the note. I hear you on the zoom pain. What would be your preferred means of zooming?

Just noticed you also support scroll to zoom, and it works at a decent speed.

Re: Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker

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Cool, I tried something similar 30 years ago working for a military contractor: http://zoom.interoscitor.com/PetersonEnterprises/Consulting/... I was asked to come up with a 3D display of the airspace around an aircraft for the pilot to use and which could replace the 2D displays used then. People were impressed, but decided it was impractical for a variety of reasons. You can't really tell where the aircraft are rel…

You might find interesting how space games have tackled this issue. Most share the same design for a radar display that shows targets around you in all dimensions using vertical lines to offset the markers above or below. Check out a video of Elite Dangerous combat to see it in action. It seems conceptually very similar to what you came up with.

Thank you both for sharing your gaming and IRL experiences. It's neat to see how problems overlap, in and out of reality.

Form and function (or something).

Re: Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker

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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.

It's amusing that changing the altitude scale doesn't reset the "trails" -- when I dragged it around quickly (on mobile) it left vertical streaks behind all the in-flight planes

Fixed
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