Side project · TypeScript

ATC: live airport traffic

Every aircraft at 32 US airports, live, from a world map down to the gate. ATC draws each airport's real ground layout from OpenStreetMap (runways, taxiways, aprons, terminals and gates) as a three.js diorama under a MapLibre GL map that flies down into it, and places the traffic from the adsb.lol feed on it as it moves: pushing back, taxiing, lining up, climbing out. The light and weather come from each airport's own METAR and the sun's real position. Follow one flight and the camera carries it gate to gate, from its origin's diorama across the map and into its destination's.

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Details

Live aircraft from adsb.lol with adsb.fi as a fallback provider, and a feed that serves its last good answer through upstream rate limits
FAA ground stops and delay programs, predicted taxi and runway paths, and the published FAA CIFP approaches and departures drawn for a flight
A departures and arrivals board, search by flight, airline or gate, and drone, tower, orbit and approach cameras
Replay of the recent traffic at 10x and 30x, and browser alerts for emergencies and military aircraft