Martin Spott wrote : > Hi Stuart, > > "Buchanan, Stuart" wrote: > > >> Some of you may have come across www.flightaware.com as a way to track IFR >> flights. It uses data from the FAA radar system and provides products >> (free and commercial) based on it. >> > > I see one drawback here: They really only track flights in the coverage > of US American Radar. Explicitly they state "FlightAware is the first > company to offer free flight tracking services for both private and > commercial air traffic in the United States". > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Accidentially I came across this web site while googling for the > registration of an aircraft that I spotted on the apron of Berlin > Tempelhof (EDDI) last sunday (surrounded by police and a crowd of 6 or > 8 black limo's). Our Cessna was No. 2 behind this flight .... > > FlightAware tracks the route of this aircraft until it leaves Canadian > territory: > > http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N14R > > .... but I would have loved to investigate the aerodrome of departure > of this flight that ended at Tempelhof ;-) >
It looks like a breach of individual's privacy to me. You can track people's travel ( owner names are apparent ) and I doubt it would be permitted this side of the Atlantic. -Fred -- Frédéric Bouvier http://frfoto.free.fr Photo gallery - album photo http://www.fotolia.fr/p/2278 Other photo gallery http://fgsd.sourceforge.net/ FlightGear Scenery Designer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
