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Life & fun · January 30, 2025

Flight Compass

Discover the world as you fly with our free app

Flight Compass launched on January 30, 2025 with 9 votes, #2,006 of 6,142 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

What it does

See landmarks as you fly over them. Keep a track of the countries you have flown over. Have a log of your past flights. Save your favourite landmarks. All in airplane mode.

Track past flights, countries and landmarks flown over

Say goodbye to sharing flight numbers. Share your flight with Flight Compass You'll see what landmarks your friends flight is flying over and what's coming up on their journey. Get the live location of the flight and landmarks it is passing over. Get the most up-to-date expected landing time of the flight. " Great app, had a lot of fun using it on recent flights from Glasgow to Sydney. Super simple and great to have when on flights, plus it’s a great way to learn something new! " " Flight Compass is awesome! I used it from Toronto to London last week! " " This really gave me a perspective of the actual journey I was making during my flight. It’s easy in the modern age to forget the voyage…from flightcompassapp.com

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