FlightGlobe
Live aircraft tracking by airport, route, airline and aircraft type.
Right now
All observations →- 72WRR07 (NH90) — military6225 ft · Climb / approach · 71.507716 m/s
- 43MRLN71 (TIGR) — military450 ft · Stationary / taxi · 43.1104072 m/s
- 114EVAC70 (B190) — military22000 ft · Climb / approach · 114.0522348 m/s
- 116REPR11 (PC21) — military3425 ft · Climb / approach · 116.1100108 m/s
- 49G26193 (H60) — military1800 ft · Stationary / taxi · 48.5120692 m/s
- 61G08869 (H47) — military1575 ft · Climb / approach · 61.1159472 m/s
- 53ZORRO02 (AT8T) — military1450 ft · Climb / approach · 53.0906208 m/s
- 42DEAD70 (H64) — military500 ft · Stationary / taxi · 41.7728528 m/s
- 81G21154 (H60) — military4950 ft · Climb / approach · 81.0763744 m/s
- 194RIPMO29 (C30J) — military27000 ft · Departure / arrival · 194.20261 m/s
Scale (m/s)
Learn the basics
A live flight tracker shows where aircraft are right now — their position, altitude, speed and identity — drawn as moving dots on a map. Almost all of it comes from one technology: ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast), in which each aircraft works out its own position from GPS and broadcasts it on the 1090 MHz radio frequency, several times a second, for anyone with a receiver to hear.
FlightGlobe assembles these broadcasts primarily from the OpenSky Network, with a best-effort ADSB.lol fallback for aircraft tagged as military-registered. For every aircraft it shows a “state vector” — position, altitude, ground speed (in m/s), heading and climb or descent — alongside its callsign and identity. Because the data is broadcast rather than commanded, the map is a window onto the airspace, not a control panel: it reflects what aircraft are saying about themselves.