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I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights▲1,539
Hey HN! Pilots everywhere are required to keep a logbook of all their flying hours, aircraft, airports, and so on. Since I track everything digitally (some people still just use paper logbooks!), I put together some data visualizations and a few 3D globes to show my flying history. This globe is probably my favourite so far: https://jameshard.ing/pilot/globes/all If you’ve got ideas for other graphs or ways to show this kind of data, I’d love to hear them!
2025 · jameshard.ing
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Wingbits AI▲266
AI agents for real-time aircraft monitoring and alerts
May 2026 · wingbits.ai
3AI
Abuse inflight WiFi APIs to track your flight▲105
2023 · github.com
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Plane Above Me▲96
What's that plane?
2022
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Flight Follower▲114
Ad free flight tracking for aviation enthusiasts
Jan 2026
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Flighty 4.0▲296
Live flight tracker w/ the world's fastest delay alerts
2024
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Plane Finder AR▲126
Look in the sky and see info about the flight overhead
2017
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Airplane▲487
Quickly transform scripts, SQL, and more into internal tools
2021
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Views by Airplane▲443
Developer-centric approach to quickly building internal UIs
2022
10SA
Skies-adsb 2.0 – my 3D plane-tracking web app▲59
Hello, I'd like to share a 3D plane tracking web app that I developed called: skies-adsb. Living near KMIA (a very busy airport), I spend a lot of time plane spotting and thought it would be cool to track planes in 3D. In October 2021, I built a prototype 3D ADS-B flight tracker called skies-adsb using p5.js. In April 2022, I released version 1.0 of skies-adsb, rewritten in Three.js. However, this release still relied on manual editing of GeoJSON layers. By late 2024, I had learned enough about GIS and GeoPandas to automate map creation using custom GeoJSON layers. During the Christmas…
2025 · github.com
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Airplane Autopilot▲265
Rapidly build internal tools with an AI coding assistant
2023
12AH
A high-altitude low-power flight computer for high-altitude balloons▲42
I've been working on this for a while now, and I'm happy to share! I've been into launching weather balloons for a few years. One aspect of the hobby that really drew me in was the tracking side of things. Tracking systems let you follow the balloon's position throughout the flight and, most importantly, know exactly where it lands so you can recover the instrumentation. APRS is what I started out using during my first few years in the hobby, after I got my amateur radio license in 2020 (W0MXX). I designed a few small boards using the trackuino…
2025 · github.com
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Overflight▲116
Identify every aircraft in your sky.
Jul 2026 · dgrlabs.co
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Plane▲249
AI-native project management
Oct 2025
15
Jetpac Spotter▲69
Real-time object recognition with your iPhone
2014
16
OnlyFlights▲121
Flight tracking made easy
Nov 2025
17
Plane Finder▲92
Identify airplanes with iPhone
2014
18FV
Flight-Viz – 10K flights on a 3D globe in 3.5MB of Rust+WASM▲101
I built a real-time flight tracker that renders 10,000+ aircraft on an interactive 3D globe, entirely in the browser using Rust compiled to WebAssembly.
Apr 2026 · flight-viz.com
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WhereFlight▲120
Flight tracking made simple
Oct 2025
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Ring Always Home Cam▲300
An indoor flying security camera for your home
2020
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OtherATC▲18
Plane spotting made easy for everyone
Jul 2026 · otheratc.com
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Flight▲85
A Beautiful Flight Tracking App
2014
23
Cardinal▲132
The world's first autonomous surveillance drone for home
2016
24
App in the Air▲76
Flight Tracker with Airport Guides
2014

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