AirTraffic Worldwide

[Mergie Master]

24-hour observation of all of the large aircraft flights in the world (recorded by the airplane flight transponders via Geo-stationary orbital satellites) patched together and condensed down to about a minute,i.e., you watch 24 hours of flights compressed into one minute. From space we look like a beehive of activity.

You can tell it is summer time in the north by the sun's footprint over the planet. You can see that it doesn't quite set in the extreme north and it doesn't quite rise in the extreme south.

With this 24-hour observation of aircraft travel on the earth's surface, we get to see the daylight pattern move across the face of the planet.

It sort of puts 5 medium to large commercial airline crashes per year into perspective.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XBwjQsOEeg[/ame]

Especially when this activity is just 1 of those 365 days.

[Highstrung]

It still looks like not many people want to visit the Sahara.

* It is really cool. I'm on my third time watching it.

[We Jeep Inn]

Cool perspective.

As part of flight training for a private ticket you have to do 3 take offs and landings at a tower controlled field. I went to Athens Ga. because it's tower controlled but not much traffic. After my third landing we (instructor) asked the cotroller if we could come up in the tower to see what goes on. He showed us around. He had a 20 mile view around the airport from the ground to FL60 (60,000 ft). There were 18-20 planes on the screen and I commented that was alot of planes in what seemed to be a small area.

He panned over to Atlanta and the screen was FULL. He turned on the audio and I could not believe all the hell that seemed to be breaking loose. Amazing that they get all those planes in and out of one point on the ground without many mishaps. Still amazes me.