November 27, 20223 yr Hi everyone, I am an avid gamer, as well as plane enthusiast. I'd like to get more into plane spotting at my local airports. If anyone know where or who to speak to regarding plane spotting, please let me know. Thanks, and I look forward to getting to know everyone and participate.
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November 28, 20223 yr Welcome to the party. You can start planespotting at your local airport. Stay outside the fence and spot as much as you wish. Thank you. Rick $Silver Donor EAA 1317610 I7-7700K @ 4.5ghz, MSI Z270 Gaming MB, 32gb 3200, Geforce RTX2080 Super O/C, 28" Samsung 4k Monitor, Various SSD, HD, and peripherals
November 28, 20223 yr Welcome to Avsim. 🙂 In relation to some plane spotting, if there is an airport local to you, see if it has a website with information that could be useful to you for that kind of stuff. Most airports are aware that doing anything to make them more popular with locals is a good thing and so they do tend to try to welcome plane enthusiasts, often providing specific viewing areas, dedicated mobile phone apps and the like. If however, there is nothing like that close to you or available, you could get hold of an air band radio so you can monitor flight traffic (be aware that in some countries it is not legal to listen to aircraft communications, and if that is the case for you, it's worth knowing that many air traffic control systems do stream their comms online for this reason so enthusiasts can still monitor this traffic). I would also recommend getting hold of the mobile phone app FlightRadar24, there is a free version of this, or you can pay a small subscription to get some enhanced features. This app will let you track aircraft via their transponders so you can see pictures of them, see their flight track on a map in realtime with altitude and speed data plus the route they are flying, ETA etc. Lots of us who work in aviation actually do use FlightRadar24, as it is quite handy for many jobs, notably for me as a ramp TL at EGCC for knowing when stuff is likely to arrive. There are more 'official' systems we have a at work such as the Chroma and SITA systems, but that app is still handy to have on your phone when out on the ramp. Alan Bradbury Check out my youtube flight sim videos: Here
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