Flight Above

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Fetching live aircraft data.

Live data: adsb.lol (ODbL), airplanes.live, adsb.fi · Routes: adsbdb, adsb.lol · Photos: planespotters.net · Places: GeoNames (CC BY), OurAirports · Map: Natural Earth · Mil/Gov: Plane-Alert-DB (ODbL) · FLARM: Open Glider Network · ATZs: UK AIP · Weather: aviationweather.gov · Times marked ~ are estimates

Settings

My location

A UK postcode (PR5 0UN, or just PR5 0 or PR5), an OS grid reference (2 letters + 4–10 digits), easting,northing, latitude,longitude, an airfield: its ICAO code (EGCB) or name (Barton), or a town. Places in your own country come first. The radar and nearest aircraft centre on it.

Units

Metric: m, km/h, km, m/s · Imperial: ft, mph, miles, ft/min · Aviation: ft/FL, knots, nm, ft/min

Search range (flight view)

Refresh every

Include aircraft on the ground

Show aircraft photos Show airfields on the radar Show airfield zones (ATZs) on the radar Show military low flying areas (LFAs) Show airfield weather (METAR)

Aircraft tails on the radar

Full flight: the whole route since take-off for the aircraft you've selected, and as much as Flight Above has seen of the others.

Radar background

The colour behind the radar (it fills the circle when the map is Plain). They're all dark so the aircraft colours stay easy to read.

Radar map

Radar sweep animation

Keep screen awake

Alerts Alert me to squawk 7500 (hijack), 7600 (radio failure) and 7700 (emergency) anywhere in the world

Airborne aircraft only. Shows the aircraft, how far away it is and the frequencies it's likely to be on. Like all alerts, the card disappears after a minute unless you tap it (the aircraft keeps pulsing on the radar).

Alert me to military, government & royal aircraft near me

Within

Measured from your device location, or the location you've chosen, not from where you've moved the radar.

Military Exclude RAF Grob Trainers callsigns beginning UAM Government incl. royal, Air Force One & doomsday planes Police, air ambulance & coastguard

Low level, below 5,000 ft

Low-level tone

Above 5,000 ft

Above 5,000 ft tone

Volume

Each aircraft alerts once as it comes in range (and again if it moves between the two height bands). Alert cards disappear after a minute unless you tap them; the bar along the bottom shows the time left. The page has to be open: tap anywhere once so your browser allows sound. On iPhone and iPad the silent switch mutes it.

Custom alerts

A chime when a particular flight, airline, aircraft type or registration comes within your chosen distance of you (your device location, or the location you've chosen). Works even with the alert above switched off.

Alert on

Look for

Within

Your settings

Your settings are kept on this device, and backed up on your Pi. To copy them to another device, or into the iPhone Home Screen app (which has its own storage), type this code there.

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Code from another device

Notifications on this device

Get your alerts (military & government, and your custom alerts) as notifications, even when Flight Above is closed or your phone is locked. The Pi keeps watch for you.

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