Flightradar24 Free 6.1

For various reasons, it's handy to have an app ready to track flight information and traffic. The free version of Flightradar24 lets you do just that, displaying a map of real live flight traffic, everywhere in the world. With this app you can always keep an eye on plane routes and their estimated time of arrival.

Easy-to-use app, with some features

The user-interface is intuitive, but rather plain. The app opens with a world map and displays all airborne planes, together with airports and the user's location. All planes are marked in yellow, so it's extremely difficult to differentiate one from another, considering that Flightradar also shows parked planes. Tap on one plane and the app displays its name and airline, but not the destination or even speed.

Flightradar24 Free uses Google maps to display location, so the only other settings for maps are terrain and satellite. You can also set the map to follow a market plane as it travels realtime, show ground traffic, airports or the phone's location. Other than that, there's not much customization you can do to the map.

Search for flights

In case you were wondering which aicrafts are visible on the app's map, the help section provides detailed information on the airplanes equipped with the ADS-B tracking system. The app lets you search for certain flights by using the flight's number, making it easy to spot the airplane you're interested in.

In addition, it comes with augmented reality view, you could identify planes flying overhead by simply pointing the camera at the sky. Also, ads are automatically removed with an upgrade.

Upgrade for more features

The main reason why anyone would use this app is to check the route and arrival time of a specific plane. You can only do that if you upgrade to the premium version for 3,45$.

The pro version displays route, speed, altitude and even a picture of each aircraft, options to search for a specific flight and filter planes by speed and altitude. It also includes plenty of filters to choose from, together with the option of saving multiple locations.

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