Tinfoil Pigeons – see the aircraft overhead

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Tinfoil Pigeons — what plane is flying over my house?<br>A live radar of the aircraft above you.

Enter a postcode, town, or city — anywhere in the world — or use your<br>location, and see the aircraft overhead right now. Tap one to find out<br>what it is.

Postcode or place SCAN USE MY LOCATION A LIVE RADAR OF THE AIRCRAFT ABOVE YOU. TAP ANY BLIP TO SEE WHAT IT IS.

CONTACT LEDGER

YOUR SPOTTER'S LOG

RANGE (NM) 10 25 50 100<br>MIL HIGHLIGHT<br>OFF STILL SHOWS MILITARY CONTACTS — IT JUST STOPS THEM SHOWING OFF.

PUBLIC SERVICE<br>AIR AMBULANCE, POLICE, COASTGUARD, SAR — MARKED IN BLUE. OFF HIDES THEM.

ALL LABELS<br>OFF KEEPS THE SCOPE CLEAN — HOVER OR TAP A BLIP FOR ITS TAG.

SWEEP (SECONDS) 4 8 12<br>SONAR PING A SOFT BLIP WHEN SOMETHING NEW ENTERS THE SCOPE.

POP OUT THE SCOPE ⧉

LOCATE POSTCODE OR GPS. WE DON'T KEEP EITHER.<br>SCAN THE SWEEP FINDS EVERYTHING BROADCASTING.<br>TAP INTERROGATE ANY BLIP FOR ITS FULL FILE.<br>CONTACT LOCKED

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ABOUT THE OPERATION

You heard a jet. You looked up. You asked the eternal question:<br>what plane is flying over my house? Tinfoil Pigeons answers it.<br>Every airliner, cargo hauler, helicopter and suspiciously quiet turboprop<br>broadcasts its position over ADS-B, and our scope listens. Enter a<br>postcode or town — anywhere in the world — or use your location, and<br>the flights overhead appear as blips, sweep after sweep, exactly<br>where they really are.

Tap any blip and we pull its file: aircraft type, airline, registration,<br>and — when one is on record — where it came from and where it's going.<br>No app, no account, no charge. Just you, the sky, and the truth they<br>paint green.

Some people spell it Tin Foil Pigeons. We won't hold it against you.

QUESTIONS CIVILIANS ASK<br>WHAT PLANE IS THAT?

Tap it. The scope locks a reticle and opens the file: type, operator,<br>registration, altitude, speed, heading, and how far it is from your<br>roof. If it's military we'll say so, quietly.

WHAT PLANE IS FLYING OVER MY HOUSE RIGHT NOW?

Scan from your postcode and look at the middle of the dial. You're the<br>pulsing dot. Anything inside the first ring is, in the technical<br>sense, overhead. Wave if you like. They can't see you. Probably.

HOW DOES IT KNOW?

Aircraft transponders broadcast position, altitude and identity over<br>ADS-B. A worldwide network of enthusiasts with aerials on their sheds<br>picks it up, and we draw it on a cathode ray tube because frankly it<br>looks better this way.

WHY DOES A FLIGHT HAVE NO ROUTE?

ADS-B doesn't broadcast origin or destination — route databases only<br>know scheduled flights. Private jets, trainers, helicopters and the<br>military often have no flight plan on file. We call those mystery<br>pigeons, and we respect them.

IS THIS LEGAL?

Entirely. These are public radio broadcasts, the same flights overhead<br>that every plane-spotter with a scanner has logged since the<br>seventies. We just gave it a better screen.

ARE THE BIRDS REAL?<br>NO COMMENT.

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