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lesmondon My toddler still loves planes, so I upgraded her radar

I am the co-founder of Planefinder.net. We’ve been tracking aircraft since 2009.

Good work!

Love it!

lesmondon Cloudflare had a partial outage

It didn’t at the time.

Their phone line kept cutting us off and then the people there were not too helpful.

lesmondon Cloudflare had a partial outage

Enterprise support has been useless as is the status page. Got more info here

lesmondon HeyWhatsThat – Calculate viewshed and panorama for any point on Earth

We actually added this as a feature to our sharing software at Plane Finder using our own modelling. If you sign up and then view your stats on the web you can compare your actual to the predicted. https://planefinder.net/coverage

lesmondon Apple TV 4K Gets A12 Bionic

I wonder if it can support more than 3 Bluetooth connections like the current one!

lesmondon Route Leak Impacting Cloudflare

I guess we are in that 3% then!

But 50% of our traffic has gone!

Hopefully you are still working on it!

lesmondon Flightradar24 – how it works

Thank you!

Lee (CTO @ Plane Finder)

lesmondon Ask HN: Any cool ARKit or ARCore apps out there right now gaining popularity?

Check out our app Plane Finder 3D https://planefinder.net/3D/

lesmondon Show HN: Augmented Reality flight tracker

Hi there,

I am one of the creators of Plane Finder 3D.

Plane Finder 3D is the latest of our creations. We are a small team of 4 based in the UK and created the first flight tracker for iOS back in 2009!

The new AR (ARKit) mode just looks so awesome! . We use our network of thousands of ADS-B receivers around the world to feed this app it's data. You can project the airspace onto a coffee table or anything flat actually (moving car roofs are not recommended!).

All you do is then move your iPhone/iPad around and you can zoom around the "sky" with your device! You can see more info at https://planefinder.net/3D/

Hope you like it!