FlightAware

Yesterday, we were alerted to the fact that people were looking at an airplane flying down to Alabama, and it appears that they were having discussions with Philip Rivers.

It is all very clandestine, and the FlightAware people have been all over it.

I don't know if Cory Smith from PacPower, managing editor, if he is locked into FlightAware, but I know he has been talking about the fact that we might just see a Philip Rivers at NC State regime.

We'll see what he says about that.

He joins us on the Adam Gold Show.

All right, sir, do you have an account at FlightAware? How does this work? Who's tracking planes?

Yes, I am.

Charlie Gribble has also been on duty as well, so we kind of...

We go to Florida a lot, my wife and I, and Florida thunderstorms are a daily occurrence.

So I always look at a FlightAware app, and there are other apps, and you can see the radar, and you can see the flight path.

And what I notice is the pilot usually flies around the line of thunderstorms.

They bend south, they bend north.

Oh, right, this was the story.

So our listener and became very good friend, Malcolm T., from there, from the Sarasota area, was showing us the other day images from, like, FlightAware or something like that, of a guy who draws these quite elaborate, quite artistic images in the sky—well, not in the sky, but he draws them in FlightAware— with his ADS-B tracker, his flight track.

And so we were talking about that.

Jeb, you, and we got into a long conversation about how you actually do that because these are pretty elaborate.

I don't know how you find out that kind of information verifiable.

I mean, I think you can look at FlightAware and you can see what kind of aircraft...

I got that from our own

government.

I'm not sure it's that one, but there's an act, and plus it's the same for all these other countries as well.

You know, they all get to have a certain kind of information delivered to them.

I'm just skeptical of, like, what you just kind of read, but the site, Marine Traffic, and FlightAware is real-time stuff, real-time stuff.

I'll take a look at that.

By the way, in addition to the flight delays, 118 flights heading in to or out of the U.S., they were just completely canceled.

That's according to flight tracking website FlightAware.

The delays came after backups at airports over the weekend.

On Sunday, more than 8,700 U.S. flights were delayed.

FlightAware data shows that.

Yep, air traffic controller shortage.

That's why.

Then from there, we talk about, of course, analyzing all your findings, aggregating all this information together, figuring out how all the pieces fit.

You're using Flightradar24, you're using FlightAware, you're using Adsby Exchange, you're aggregating all this information together.

You're doing analysis and you're wanting to determine whether or not the conclusions you made are valid or not.

And based on the analysis of this data, you might be able to find more information.

And that's the kind of stuff of I'm generating a new icon and replacing the notify icon every single time to create that animation.

And you just create, you're using FlightAware and some geolocation stuff to figure out where you are.

I just showed you a view out my window of the ocean.

Like I want the same thing for boats going by.

Even the bottles of wine we were bringing to the family reunion remained intact.

I would later see the recorded 15 minutes of my first solo flight tacked on to the Flight Aware website, a series of chaotic headings and altitudes until we hit the ground.

To get to my mother in Florida, I would need to board an Airbus A320 for the two and a half hour flight from New York.

Driving was not an option.