Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker

Planes flying w/ multiple transponders [1]?

[1] https://files.littlebird.com.au/Screenshot-2025-11-29-at-8.2...

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As an old-timer who learned programming with punched cards, this visualization blows my mind. I want to turn it into my desktop screen saver.

I love this, and would pay for native or electron app on Mac. Like Google Earth for global airspace.

This is quite cool, seeing taking off planes appearing and rising is cool.

Some comments: - Is the Up axis correctly scaled? The ascent rate of planes taking off seems very steep - Planes landing seems to get "stuck" at the beginning of a lane at about 600 feet (tracking/radar cutoff?), maybe a fix the that slightly adjusts it to ground in a landed state if a plane "stops" or disappears from the data tracking.

As a bit of a Flight Aware addict, well done.

Wow, great idea well executed, congrats

This is amazingly cool

This is really freaking cool.

Two asks -

(1) you should default to a busy airport, eg. Atlanta, which is the busiest in the world. They have an order of magnitude more flights landing and departing. It seems random, but I keep getting New Orleans which is 10-20x less busy than Atlanta. ATL, SFO, LAX, ... That said, the topographically diverse places like Anchorage are nice too, and the height maps on the textures are fantastic.

(2) Higher resolution satellite titles would be awesome. I have a high density flight path directly overhead and I'd love to see where I live on the map and know which way to look in real time, but the textures are about 10x too grainy to make out my street / neighborhood. Maybe you can download some high resolution tiles for free that won't be a big performance hit?