Show HN: Myplane.info – Find your aircraft model before your flight

ndmrcf · on April 5, 2019

Hello, main reason I've made this tool is to provide a quick look into the flights bound to the flight number with mobile-first design. Compared to other flight lookup services, it only shows future flights, prints the plane model and respects the crappy airport connection. Technical background: flask + flightaware API + milligram.css. It has been an enjoyable UX project. Thanks for trying!

billfruit · on April 5, 2019

Not working for airlines in India.

ndmrcf · on April 5, 2019

I appreciate the feedback. I've just tried an example flight: AIC124 and seen it worked, hopefully you're trying the similar format (ICAO).

billfruit · on April 6, 2019

Even that is giving a server error. Generally in India, IATA codes are used for flight numbers.

ndmrcf · on April 9, 2019

Hello again, I couldn't get an answer from the provider so I've acquired IATA codes and added a local conversion. Now it should cover the most of the airlines. Cheers

ndmrcf · on April 6, 2019

Thank you for the heads up, I've found the issue were I was using and old airport database from 2017 (source of error / missing airport code), now turned it into a self healing one using the API. So, error should be gone.

Actually, flight codes with IATA should've also worked but API returns no results for now, I will have to ask them asap. Best