This edition of techblog is about services that allows you to track ‘live flight information’ – just like the one which you see on your screen when you are on board. Casper is such type of a service that allows you to track almost all flights flying across European countries (especially those from /to the Amsterdam Airport). The service uses Google map API for displaying this information. The developers have assigned different colours to different flights based on name of the airline.

The services allows you to customise the display and you can change the colour of these airplane classification model to your preferred ones. You can also group (give colour) based on the level of altitude at which they are flying.

The website shows all incoming flights, outgoing flights with respect to an air-port and those which are in transit. You can group the flights based on this information as well.

If you click on the icon of a particular airplane you can view the speed at which it is travelling and the altitude at which it is flying . The developers claim that they are able to provide the inform in real-time.

The service also helps the users to replay an entire ‘airplane journey’ which had taken place few days back.

You can also try services like the one provided by the faculty of Engineering at Zurich University and the service RadarVirtuel which tracks almost all the flights in Europe. The statistics provided by both these websites are real time.

GmapTracker is a service targeted for US traffic. You can track incoming / outgoing flight information for major airports in US using this service. Currently the service provides information about inbound / outbound flights with respect to the following airports – New York, San Francisco,  Boston, Chicago LA and Atlanta.

Airman is another service that uses Google maps (Gmaps) for providing this information. The service is currently in beta-version and they are planning to extend this to more number of airports.This service classifies airplanes based on the level of altitude at which it is flying.

If you are based in US, then you might be interested in trying another service called Aero Seek. This website offers much more than mere tracking. It is essentially an aviation oriented search engine. And they have classified information based on Air Carriers, Aircraft Images and even Aviation Weather!