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FlightAware markets itself more to professional users in the aviation industry.Īt TPG, Flightradar24 is the app we use every day to track flights, both for work and for fun. (There's also a third flight-tracking app and website, Planefinder, which looks and feels similar to Flightradar24 and has the same price for the premium version.)įR24 features more options that will appeal to casual users, and while both apps have good free versions, Flightradar24 offers cheaper premium levels. Flightradar24 is the more customizable of the two, and while FlightAware says it tracks more flights, it lacks options like showing planes on the ground. Sign up for the free daily TPG newsletter for more aviation news!įlightradar24 calls itself the most popular flight-tracker app the Google Play store shows it has more than 10 million installs, while FlightAware has more than five million. With Flightradar24 and FlightAware, you can find out granular details including how fast and high a flight is, its route, the exact airplane operating it and when it was built, and what routes it flew before, even months in the past. IPhone screen cap by Riley Arthur/The Points Guy You can find out pretty much everything about a flight, in real time, and anywhere in the world. But you can know a lot more than altitude, distance, aircraft type, airline and flight number. The two tables taken together will give you a pretty good idea of what is flying above you. If you have an iPhone, you can just ask 'Siri, what flights are overhead?' - and the voice-activated digital assistant will return a screen like this one.

#RED ARROWS FLIGHT RADAR 24 LIVE TRACKER ANDROID#

We'll talk about the two most commonly used apps, Flightradar24 and FlightAware, which both have iOS and Android versions and a website as well. You can use them to track aircraft you cannot see, too. If you are an AvGeek, you know that there are apps and sites you can use to track those planes and tell exactly what the one you've just seen fly over is.

On any given day, even with the drop in air traffic due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there are thousands of airplanes flying over the United States and the rest of the world - commercial jets, general aviation and private aircraft and military planes from various armed forces.

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