Where it all comes from
In short: Isoplanes shows what volunteers' receivers and a handful of public data services say about the sky. Everything it uses is listed here. It is not for navigation or flight planning.
Aircraft positions
Aircraft broadcast their position (ADS-B). Volunteers with small receivers collect it and share it. Isoplanes combines these networks and its own receiver:
- adsb.fi: open ADS-B data from its community of feeders.
- adsb.lol: open ADS-B data, published under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).
- The OpenSky Network: a non-profit, community-based receiver network.
- Isoplanes' own ADS-B receiver, which also feeds these networks and AeroDataBox.
Routes and aircraft details
- adsbdb.com: the usual route of a callsign, and an aircraft's type and registration.
Flight schedules, gates and delays
- AeroDataBox: scheduled, estimated and actual times, terminals, gates, status, and the aircraft assigned to a flight.
- Flightradar24: used only to work out which aircraft is flying a flight number when a callsign does not say (for example IndiGo's alphanumeric callsigns). Its positions are not shown.
Airport weather
- NOAA Aviation Weather Center: airport weather reports (METAR) and forecasts (TAF), shown in plain words.
- Weather Union (Zomato): whether it is raining now near the airports of Indian cities.
Maps and airports
- Natural Earth: the base map (public domain), drawn with India's official boundary.
- OurAirports: airports and runways (public domain).
- © OpenStreetMap contributors: airport layouts, taxiways, aprons and terminals (ODbL).
Built with
- three.js (MIT licence) for the 3D map.
- Manrope and IBM Plex Mono typefaces (SIL Open Font Licence), served by Google Fonts.
Notices
Not for navigation. Isoplanes is for curiosity and everyday travel. Do not use it for navigation, air traffic control, flight planning, or any decision where safety depends on it.
Positions can be wrong. They come from volunteers' receivers, and can be late, missing, or wrong. An aircraft that is not shown may still be there. Aircraft that do not broadcast ADS-B, or whose operators ask not to be shown, are not on the map.
Schedules and weather change. Times, gates, delays and weather come from the services above and are shown as they were last reported. Weather is a plain-language summary of public reports, not a forecast for flying. Check with the airline or the airport before you travel.
Names. Airline, airport and aircraft names and marks belong to their owners. Isoplanes is not affiliated with any airline, airport, aircraft maker or data provider named on this page.
How Isoplanes handles your data is on the privacy page. Questions: [email protected].