Watchin' them planes, I wish I was on one

I have used the same www fatcat.  Its a fun way to pass an idle hour especially on a clear day if you have planes flying over.   

There are a few other progs available that have different info & abilities

I was once tracking my wife arriving to meet me in Cape Town & watched her leaving London & then disappear over the sahara (!!!!)  Next morning it was back on radar again & when it passed over the Namibian boarder it was time for me to go meet her.   

I also noticed a plane about 1000km south of Cape Town heading for the pole,  I clicked on it & found it was a KLM en-route Amsterdam to Milan  -  whoops      

Good to hear planes disappearing and being off course is a common occurrence.

The plane I was tracking was also heading for a pole, the north pole. It was flying from east to west, made a 90 degree turn towards the pole, then disappeared.

Poles. Coming over here, stealing our planes.

She can steal my pole any time .........

There's a similar website and app for boats, marinetraffic.com.

Invaluable for us. As you can imagine, when you have customers who can, do, and sometimes have to, move, being able to find out where they are is a godsend.

Letting suppliers know when you've changed location is something that occasionally they overlook, but it is a fairly fundamental thing in terms of delivering stuff. Makes me wonder whether the people who buy yachts for privacy reasons aren't a bit peeved that this information is public (the system can be turned off when moored in a port, but not if moving or at anchor), although if they drink to get over it, I can't say I much care.

Still, the AIS (automatic identification system) is apparently responsible for why you cannot remember the last time you heard of two large boats hitting each other, which is quite A Good Thing for vehicles that have no brakes and sometimes travel in fog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08K_aEajzNA

Crazy.