Kolkata: It's not just Indian Air Force and Airports Authority of India (AAI) controllers that are tracking flights. Someone in your locality could be doing so. For that matter, even you could be monitoring the progress of aircraft as they arrive, depart or fly over the city!
Three overseas companies—Flight Radar of Sweden, Flight Aware of the US, and Flight Finder of the UK—have seeded tracking devices in various neighbourhoods of Kolkata and other cities to create a network of private aircraft monitoring stations that tracks the progress of flights in the region. The data is then fed into a tracking system real-time that can be accessed on the internet.
"Now you can see the progress of a flight in which your loved one is travelling, right from takeoff till it lands. And this isn't just from one Indian city to another but across the globe. So long as you have the flight numbers, they can be viewed real-time on your mobile phone, tablet or laptop from anywhere in the world," said Arya Ghosh, a bank executive who hosts devices that receive signals from flights and automatically loads the data on the internet.
31/10/15 Subro Niyogi/Times of India
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Three overseas companies—Flight Radar of Sweden, Flight Aware of the US, and Flight Finder of the UK—have seeded tracking devices in various neighbourhoods of Kolkata and other cities to create a network of private aircraft monitoring stations that tracks the progress of flights in the region. The data is then fed into a tracking system real-time that can be accessed on the internet.
"Now you can see the progress of a flight in which your loved one is travelling, right from takeoff till it lands. And this isn't just from one Indian city to another but across the globe. So long as you have the flight numbers, they can be viewed real-time on your mobile phone, tablet or laptop from anywhere in the world," said Arya Ghosh, a bank executive who hosts devices that receive signals from flights and automatically loads the data on the internet.
31/10/15 Subro Niyogi/Times of India
