flight aware

Karl Lehenbauer, CTO

David McNett, CIO Industry Aviation Website flightaware.com

FlightAware is an aviation software and data services company. Based in Houston, Texas, it is best known for the flightaware.com web site, the first to offer free flight tracking of both private and commercial aircraft in the United States. It makes use of the Aircraft Situation Display to Industry datastream.

FlightAware provides services and data primarily to aircraft and airport operators as well as other aviation organizations to assist in their operations. Contents [hide] 1 Web site 1.1 Overview 1.2 Live Flight Tracking 1.3 Registration 1.4 Resources 2 Media attention 3 References 4 External links //

Web site

Overview

The FlightAware.com web site provides free flight tracking of private and commercial flights as well as airport activity, flight and airport maps with weather, aviation statistics, and instrument flight rules procedures for Airports in the United States. In addition, the site includes pilot services such as flight planning and aviation weather, a discussion forum, and an aviation photography section.

According to the company it serves over half a million tracking requests per day as of March 2006[update].[1] Example of a FlightAware flight tracking page

Live Flight Tracking

FlightAware has real-time information for most instrument flight rules flights in the United States and the web site allows users to search, organize, and view the information in many different ways. This information is particularly useful to airport operators and aircraft operators such as small airlines, charter companies, and pilots.

Users can enter an airport (by airport code or name) and see: A list of all aircraft inbound, outbound, or scheduled to be inbound/outbound A map of the area with radar weather overlay A graph of operations at that airport Links to airport information

Users can also search by airline flight number or the aircraft's registration if it is a non-commercial flight, or select a flight from an airport's status page. Information provided includes: Proposed departure and arrival times Actual departure and arrival times Proposed and actual altitude Proposed and actual airspeed Four month history of that flight or aircraft Time elapsed and time remaining Filed Route

A link is also provided that lists, minute by minute, the latitude and longitude, ground speed, and altitude at that moment. Example of a chart available for download

Registration

Users are given the chance to register with the site for free, which opens up additional flight tracking resources, most notable the My FlightAware page. The My FlightAware page allows you to select up to five flights or tail numbers and three airports that you would like to monitor. For the planes, it shows you where the plane or flight is currently located,