How can you listen to aircraft frequencies or track airplanes like at an air traffic control center free online? (if it is possible and legal)
2007-01-22 09:47:07 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
To see where aircraft are: www.flightaware.com
To listen to ATC: www.liveatc.net
I don't think there are any that combine the two. You'd have to look over a controllers shoulder for that.
2007-01-22 09:49:31 · answer #1 · answered by Flug 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alot of great answers so far.
As far as tracking flights go, I have not seen a LIVE tracking site on the web anywhere, but http://www.flightaware.com as mentioned above is a great site to follow.
If you can get your hands on a radio scaner that gets to the aviation band, there are a few websites that list the frequencies of each assigned aviation frequency within an ARTCC's airspace.
To get the frequencies of your local area, try this website...
http://www.naco.faa.gov/index.asp?xml=naco/online/d_tpp
Just hit the current link shown in the middle, then your state on the map and you can query the airport closest to your location. The airport diagram should have the local frequencies in use there.
Good luck
2007-01-23 00:29:36 · answer #2 · answered by Lew W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can track the aircraft on line using one of the different flight tracking programs. The company I worked for used fbo.web. We also had a scanner, available from Radioshak, that we used to listen for inbounds.
The frequencies for individual airports, ATIS, Tower, Ground, Approach, Departure and Clearance Delivery all should show up on fbo.web if you ask it for airport information for the airport you're interested in.
Due to a limited number of frequencies, many airports use the same frequencies as different airports well out of the range of line of sight radios. To my knowledge, there are not any on line sites that broadcast aircraft transmissions.
The international distress channel is 121.5, and the Ground Control freq for the airport I worked at was 121.6, it was relatively common for ELT's to bleed over onto the ground freq. 121.5 is also one of the common freqs for IAH, since commercial jets typically do not have ELT's.
So, best answer, spend a few bucks at RadioShak. fbo.web is about $10/month, and you can spend more on flight trackers, but for free airport freqs, you can go to airnav.com, and listen to everything coming and going, as well as calling into the fbo's for service.
Happy Listening.
2007-01-22 19:14:26 · answer #3 · answered by jettech 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can track airplanes at WWW.flightaware.com.
The plane must have filed a flight plan with the FAA to get into the
system. You only have to type in the plane's tail number or if it's a commercial flight type in the Company and flight number.
It's a fun program. It will be like an air controller's radar screen.
NO Audio, only the tracking. Have fun.
2007-01-22 20:19:44 · answer #4 · answered by jw 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes there is a website www.imaterrorist.com if that doesnt work try emailing the DOD they will probably want to talk to you about it.
LOL
No i dont really know if you can but i doubt it would be legal. sounds llike it would be a security threat to me. It would be kind of neat though something like google earth but for planes. Let me know if you do find something. Good luck
2007-01-22 17:51:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hard to find but there are radios you can use to monitor airplane chatter -- I don't know of any internet site you can listen to.
2007-01-22 19:10:42 · answer #6 · answered by pilot 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i smell terrorist!
2007-01-23 11:10:44 · answer #7 · answered by cherokeeflyer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋