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Know when an aircraft takes off, lands or circles

Watch aircraft by hex, registration, callsign, type or class, in the areas you draw, and get an alert for the events you choose.

What a watch can tell you

  • Takeoff and landing

    When the aircraft leaves or reaches the ground. A signal lost low and slow counts as a landing out of coverage.

  • Signal lost and back

    No reports for the time you set while it's airborne, and reports again in the air without a landing.

  • Areas

    Entering or leaving an area you draw, or a preset such as Victoria.

  • Circling or holding

    Turns within a small radius over a few minutes, with the turns, radius and time yours to set.

  • Following a road

    In Victoria, the freeway or highway its track runs along, when it switches or leaves, and each freeway interchange it passes over.

  • Limits and emergencies

    Altitude, speed, climb or descent past your limits, squawks you list, and every emergency squawk.

Which aircraft

Mix ICAO hex, registration, callsign and type, with a trailing * for prefixes, or watch a class such as helicopters inside your areas. Leave aircraft out with exceptions, or lock the watch to the first airframe it matches.

Lifetime and schedule

Run a watch forever, until a date, for some hours or days, or until its first alert or next completed flight. Limit it to days and hours, such as 20:00 to 06:00, and pause it without losing its settings.

Flight logs

Every flight of a matched aircraft, with its track, its events and the roads it followed. Keep logs from 7 days to forever, and download one as GPX, KML or CSV.

See Maps with the aircraft you follow

Tell us which aircraft or areas your team keeps watch on, and we'll show you Maps set up for them.

  • A walk through a flight watch and its alerts
  • Watch zones for the places your people work
  • Questions about plans for larger teams

Tell us about your team: how many people, and how you work today.

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