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Website for viewing flight paths anyone?

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patwa_2
patwa_2 Posts: 1,542 Forumite
Hi, wasn't sure whether to put this in Travel or Tech, but hopefully someone can help.

I'm a flight fanatic, love playing the sims and browsing the various flight-related websites. But I can't seem to find a site that would allow you to generate maps with the flight path highlighted from one airport to another. I've used the Great Circle Mapper, but that doesn't show any names for towns, and even the national borders are hard to make out so it's rather useless if you actually want to know the areas one is flying over.

I'm about to fly from Barcelona to Stockholm in a few hours, and will be flying onwards in a couple of days, and it would just be great to be able to see a map of the route, as I said preferrably with city names and borders.

I understand that as each airline routes their flights differently using the different jetways, that this might not be possible, so even a Great circle mapper but with more info would be great.

Thanks.

Hussein.
Know me for who I am, not for who I say I am.

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  • dc
    dc Posts: 2,547 Forumite
    Most flight trackers are US based like this one http://www.fboweb.com/fb40/s/tr/qt.aspx?ss=1
    but have tracked in and out of UK airports with them. Just put the flight number or both airports in.

    I usually google the start and finish airports and the airine used to get info.

    Some of the US trackers link too Google earth to give simulated in-flight visuals/paths/positions via gps, including simulated in-time landings. A lot are limited without payment. Sorry I cannot help more as I lost most of my info due to faulty hard drive.

    HTHs dc
    ac's lovechild
  • stevemcol
    stevemcol Posts: 1,666 Forumite
    Apparently I'm 10 years old on MSE. Happy birthday to me...etc
  • patwa_2
    patwa_2 Posts: 1,542 Forumite
    Ah thanks for that, Us trackers won't help me, as it's a non US flight, and I'm not transiting through any UK airport. But I'll give it a go and see what it brings up as a flight path for BCN-BRU (Barcelona-Brussels) and BRU-ARN (Brussels-Stockholm).
    Thanks.
    Know me for who I am, not for who I say I am.
  • patwa_2
    patwa_2 Posts: 1,542 Forumite
    I tried the link above, it resulted in a file ful of code in Macromedia Dreamweaver. The first site can't find the flight, non US/Canadian TIMEOUT error.
    Know me for who I am, not for who I say I am.
  • stevemcol
    stevemcol Posts: 1,666 Forumite
    have you downloaded google earth first?
    http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
    Apparently I'm 10 years old on MSE. Happy birthday to me...etc
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