Air traffic maps

When using my lasers outside I am always careful to avoid aircraft and even though most of the time it is as simple as keeping an eye out for aircraft one of the things I do is check out a few live air traffic maps. They aren't always accurate but in my opinion it is better than nothing. Here are a few websites with live air traffic.

RadarVirtuel.com

This site seems to have the most accuracy for the UK, as well as most of eastern europe. It has a pretty basic layout.

Flightradar24.com - Live Flight Tracker!

This site also seems to be very accurate for the UK and eastern europe as well as parts of the middle east and north africa.

http://www.liveatc.net/feedmap/feedmap.html

This site is a little different. It shows a map of most major airports and if you click on the airports you can get a live audio link to the control towers of those airports. Pretty interesting stuff.

Some of these maps are very accurate for some areas and extremely inaccurate for others I find that if you google "air traffic map (insert specific area)" you find more accurate results.

Like I said most of the time just keeping an eye out for airplanes is sufficient but I like to be cautious....... plus a live air traffic map is pretty damn cool IMO.

Very cool indeed. I'll have to check this out for my area.

Thanks, sopark4000!

+1 from me

-mega