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What's that plane?
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Billy Lo
Plane Above Me — What's that plane?
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Have you ever wondered what type of aircraft is flying above you? You can scan the sky or let the app auto-detect flights using audio recognition. Once detected, it will show live flight data such as aircraft model, flight path, altitude and speed.
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Brittany Joiner {Britt the Builder}
I love airplanes and love seeing planes above me - that's cool that it can sense sounds! Can't wait to try this out.
Billy Lo
Maker
PlaneAboveMe uses iPhone’s mic to sense the presence of aircraft sounds. Once detected, it calls flight data APIs and reads out the flight details, show photos of that particular aircraft above you, along with its current flight path on a map. In addition, you can search by location or flight number. If you enjoy aviation, or just curious about what's flying above you, you may find this useful. Free.
Peter A
@billy_lo Congrats on the launch ! I wonder - living in the city with a lot of ground noise, will the mic catch the aircraft engine sound ?
Billy Lo
Maker
@petr_ash thanks! I live in Toronto. It's pretty good. If it misses, you can always hit the Search by Location button to manually trigger it.
CristianT
Cool idea! How close (altitude?) does the plane have to be for the app to recognize it?
Billy Lo
Maker
@tamascristian If you manually scan, altitude doesn't matter. For sound-based detection, it can pick up pretty faint engine noise.
wong2
Cool, which flight data API are you using?
Jonah Wolfraim
Always thinking about this…. Thank you!
Billy Lo
Maker
@jonahwolfraim - glad that you like it!
Gergely Toth
Love the idea! Well done
Billy Lo
Maker
@gergely_toth3 thanks for the kind words!
Leonard Püttmann
Really cool app!