Now you can use mouse to change the camera during the cockpit view

It should be fixed now.

Very nice. It would be sweet to get some anti-aliasing.

cockpit button is on the left side panel under flight details

Thanks for letting me know. I actually didn't know about this feature in FlightRadar24 app.

Creator here. I posted Flight-Viz a few days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603966) and the feedback was great. Since then I added a cockpit mode that follows any liveflight with real 3D terrain.

How to try it: go to flight-viz.com, click any plane, then click "Cockpit" in the action buttons. You'll get a first-person view wit h real buildings, terrain, atmosphere, and a HUD showing altitude/speed/heading — all driven by live ADS-B data.

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Can you make it so "exit cockpit" navigates to a route rather than execute a back on the browser, as it takes me back to the hacker news page when I push it.

Also took me about 5 minutes to find the cockpit view button after I'd selected a flight but that might be a me problem :)

Exit Cockpit disabled; No parachutes available

Thank you for the suggestion and I just modified that behavior.

> Also took me about 5 minutes to find the cockpit view button after I'd selected a flight

Same here. Should be more prominent for a brand new feature!

i came here to comment on the exit=back too

and i'd like metric measurement too

It's really cool. I'm a little unsure if the website is overloaded or my browser is not rendering it properly. If I zoom in on an area and try to click on a plane in flight, sometimes I can select a plane, but sometimes I can't. Even for a plane that I was able to select a few seconds before, if I click away and try to click again, it won't select.

You need to click on the plane icon, not the label.

This is so cool. But on iOS, clicking the plane flashes the mini modal/popup but the it immediately disappears. There no way, on touch, to keep it open long enough to click a cockpit view button, assuming there is one.

I was able to do it on my iPhone. 1) Click on a plane on the map. 2) Click on "menu" at the bottom. 3) Scroll down to the bottom of info window and click on "cockpit."

Whoa! That was it. I expected a more prominent button for cockpit. I actually just thought those were labels. Thanks big time.

Any chance of adding real-time sky and weather effects, using satellite imagery and weather data?

Doesn't seem to work for me. I just get star field displays no matter what I do.

Gorgeous! I can search flights at LAX but I don't see the smaller airports around it like SNA or LGB listed. Any chance those could be added?

Also, is there by chance a way to do historical flights?

I just added smaller airport. (for now I turned off airport overlay as default since it get a little clutterd but you can turn it on. or you can search the airport code in search bar)

Thank you!

I added a new track flight function and you can track any airline in flight.

Updated to version 1.3, now on mobile phone (iOS/Android), it should have better user experience.

you can check OpenSky, they have API with free tier.

That's the limitation of current OpenSky api. Most of Chinese airlines data are not in it.

the airline flight number attached to the icon is in dark color and should be visible, also could switch to satelite view when zoom in, which is dark color