Looks pretty though I can't try it out since it's iPhone-only but a few thoughts:
1. It's not a new concept, both the Planefinder and FR24 apps already have an AR point-and-tell mode on Android and iOS. The main difference is that this app seems to draw an orientated cartoon of each aircraft by type.
2. What is its back-end data feed? From Planefinder or FlightAware APIs perhaps? Without knowing that we can't determine what aircraft will appear, though I suspect it's only going to work for aircraft which transmit full ADS-B output ( large airliners & really expensive modern smaller aircraft )
3. In fact there's very little information about it at all. So it's not clear if it supports FLARM ( gliders ), PilotAware ( small private aircraft ) or Mode-S Multilateration. Does it implement the FAA's BARR list to elide corporate aircraft?
I don't intend to sound critical but being in this 'space' as a feeder to several tracking networks I've seen layperson friends rush-out to try these sort of apps and then become disappointed because they don't show the Cessna in which their son is doing his flight-training.
Addendum: also irritating that it displays the flight plan using the IATA three-letter codes. No-one files a plan using those, and they only cover a small proportion of all airfields.
Works great. My passion is convincing people that air flight is environmentally wicked and you just shouldn’t do it. One barrier I hit is people thinking “there aren’t enough flights going on to make this a problem”. This app gives a visceral, visual counter argument to that, and lets the user quickly see how very far those flights are traveling. Thanks for making it. (Don’t suppose you’d add a feature to show how much fuel is being burned :-)
1. It's not a new concept, both the Planefinder and FR24 apps already have an AR point-and-tell mode on Android and iOS. The main difference is that this app seems to draw an orientated cartoon of each aircraft by type.
2. What is its back-end data feed? From Planefinder or FlightAware APIs perhaps? Without knowing that we can't determine what aircraft will appear, though I suspect it's only going to work for aircraft which transmit full ADS-B output ( large airliners & really expensive modern smaller aircraft )
3. In fact there's very little information about it at all. So it's not clear if it supports FLARM ( gliders ), PilotAware ( small private aircraft ) or Mode-S Multilateration. Does it implement the FAA's BARR list to elide corporate aircraft?
I don't intend to sound critical but being in this 'space' as a feeder to several tracking networks I've seen layperson friends rush-out to try these sort of apps and then become disappointed because they don't show the Cessna in which their son is doing his flight-training.
Addendum: also irritating that it displays the flight plan using the IATA three-letter codes. No-one files a plan using those, and they only cover a small proportion of all airfields.