Flight Radar 24 App

How to use the Flight Radar 24 App

                Flight Radar 24 App

 

This is an app that will help you track airplanes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can zoom into your area by using your fingers and see the airplanes near you.

NOTE - The app does not track any military airplanes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When you select or touch an airplane a new window will pop up with information about that particular airplane.

 

Collect the following

  • Date & Time; needs to matches observations submitted to GLOBE*
  • Airplane Type
  • Calibrated Altitude*
  • Track

* Minimum values needed for this project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finding Information of a Selected Airplane

 

Airplane Type (use the numbers and letters in parenthesis). For this example - B752

NOTE - Report airplanes that are 25,000ft or higher.

Calibrated Altitude or height. For this example – 7,338ft

Track (degrees) tells you the direction the airplane is going. It’s a number between 0-359.

For this example – 180

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AR stands for Augmented Reality. If you hit AR, it will ask you if it can use the camera on your device.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The app will then show you all the airplanes that are around you. In yellow, it will tell you how far away they are from you (not the altitude but how far north, for example, the plane is from you).

 

When you click on an airplane, the information we saw before about airplane type and altitude will pop up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The app might not align perfectly with any contrails you find. We recommend that you follow it for a few second to see if the airplane is going the same direction as the contrail.

 

 

 

Sometime, you might have different airplanes all together. Wait a few seconds and you might notice which airplane is moving the same direction as the contrail.

 

 

Notice a contrail moving left to right in the image. There are two airplanes near it on the right side. A few seconds later, the airplane in the orange rectangle moved the opposite direction. The airplane in the blue rectangle was in the right spot.