Flight Radar

APP IS BEING RE-BUILT AS FUNDAMENTAL BUG IN IT CAN PREVENT ATC AUDIO

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Flight Radar — live aircraft radar for Playdate.

Turn your Playdate into a live air-traffic scope.
It pulls real-time ADS-B data and plots every aircraft around you on a sonar-style display.

Features

• Live ADS-B traffic on a radar scope — set range to 10/25/50/100 nm with the crank or D-pad
• Coastline map with 1,100+ major airports, worldwide, drawn behind the scope
• Select any aircraft for altitude, speed, heading, route, and a live arrival estimate
• Real ATC audio — tune the selected flight's frequency, or pick a nearby airport and listen while you watch
• Filters for airline, aircraft type, or a specific flight, plus a "notify when seen" chime for flights you're waiting on
• ACARS-style datalink message log for each flight
• Desk-friendly: stay-awake mode, inverted view, and a grounded-flights toggle for always-on ambient use

Controls

• Crank / D-pad left-right: radar range
• D-pad up/down: select aircraft
• A: flight details + ATC · B: filters
• System menu: options, help

Information on the flight details page

After selecting a flight you're taken to the flight detail page: 

• - The ATC audio from the closest tower starts streaming,
• - If there is any comms data/log it will be presented on the page, and
• - Data points about the flight are available at the top of the page;
•   - Flight ID, departure and destination locations,
•   - Estimated arrival time taking distance and current speed into consideration.
•   - Closest tower/airport,
•   - Aircraft type,
•   - Airline,
•   - Altitude,
•   - Heading,
•   - Air speed,
•   - VSpeed (vertical speed): shows how fast the flight is ascending or descending,
•   - ClAlt (Cleared Altitude): the altitude the aircraft has been cleared to reach

All the values above refresh every 10 seconds

-------  UPDATES -------

v1.1 fixes ATC audio failing at many airports. 

The app used to guess LiveATC's stream names, but the real names are irregular (one Florida tower is literally korl_kmco_twr_west), so you'd get silence or 404s. This build ships with a baked-in directory of 800+ real stream names across 150 airports worldwide, tower feeds first — with the old guessing kept as a fallback for anywhere not listed.  If you see ANY 404 errors on the flight detail page please let me know.

Credits

ADS-B data: adsb.fi · ATC audio: LiveATC.net · Datalink: airframes.io · Route data: adsbdb.com · Airports: OurAirports · Map: Natural Earth