Plane Finder
✈✈The original and most highly rated plane tracking app, ranked number one in the Navigation category in over 20 countries.✈✈
✈✈Our Plane Finder apps have been featured on Gizmodo, CNN, GMA, Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, CNET, GQ Magazine and many more.✈✈
Don’t take our word for it – check out our ratings and the wide range of positive press we’ve had across the world.
Plane Finder provides near real time “virtual radar” air traffic radar maps. It’s easy to use and is an amazing app for anyone interested in aviation, planes, flights or air traffic control. It’s also great if you simply want to know what’s up there or want to see your friends and family in the air.
Features include:
✈Live moving planes
✈Share your sightings with friends and family via facebook and twitter
✈Flight path contrails
✈Search by flight number or aircraft registration number
✈Bookmark favourite locations e.g set a ground level view of major airports
✈Beautifully detailed aircraft illustrations
✈Photographs of aircraft
✈Filter by airline and/or altitude
✈Flight information such as - flight number, route, altitude, speed, plane type, airline
✈Technical information such as – squawk codes, ICAO/IATA codes, ADS Hexcode, heading
Plane Finder works by picking up ADS-B plane feeds used by all commercial planes to transmit their name, position, destination and lots more. This technology is actually faster than radar and is used in some places for air traffic control and navigation.
Our global coverage is unrivalled and expanding all of the time, please check www.planefinder.net regularly for current coverage.
Pinkfroot are committed to customer service and continually improve our Plane Finder apps based on feedback. Follow us on twitter @pinkfroot, and join our online community at www.pinkfroot.com If you have any questions please email support@pinkfroot.com and we’ll be happy to help.
Our companion Apps - Plane Finder AR, Plane Finder HD, Airline Finder, Ship Finder, Ship Finder HD and Ships Ahoy – are all highly rated and enjoyed by both professionals and anyone with an interest in planes and ships.
Note: ADS-B is not currently used by all US airlines, however this is also expanding all of the time.
Disclaimer: The use of the information presented using Plane Finder is strictly limited to pursuing enthusiast activities (i.e. for entertainment purposes), which specifically exclude any activities that might endanger yourself or the lives of others.
Under no circumstances will the developer of this application be held responsible for incidents resulting from the use of the data or its interpretation or its use contrary to this agreement
What's new
Don't forget we continue to improve coverage especially in the US, Europe and Australia! Thank you to all those that help us with this. Coverage is always expanding so please check back on the app from time to time.
New to this version are:
✔ Search Criteria - you can now search by flight number or registration without having to change it in the settings!
✔ Display registration on the screen - this one is great for plane spotters and you can now have this on the screen.
✔ Show Local Time - you can now show the time the plane was received in your local time (UTC is still available).
Fixes -
✔ Adds PC12 aircraft image mapping
✔ Tweaks the needing network connection
✔ Fixes iOS5 sharing issue
✔ Fixes issue on older iPhone and iPod touch devices
Don't forget that we have a nice and impressive suite of apps!
Check them out here.. http://bit.ly/PFApps
You can also follow us on Twitter
http://twitter.com/pinkfroot
Each new version wipes out all the old reviews so please take the time to leave a review for the new version. You should be prompted in a few days time!
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- Last changed:
- Oct 27, 2011
- Category:
- Navigation
- Developer:
- pinkfroot limited
- Version:
- 2.63
- Average Rating:
- 4.00 (44)
- Size:
- 6.1 MB



