Live Radar Map
Open the Map — Click the compass icon in the header, or navigate directly to /map/ICAO (e.g. /map/EGLL).
Aircraft Markers — Each flight appears as a rotated plane icon colour-coded by phase: green (ground), blue (arriving), orange (departing). Airline logos and callsigns are shown on a label connected by a stalk line.
Draggable Labels — Click and drag any callsign label to reposition it. Double-click to reset to auto-placement.
Breadcrumb Trails — Airborne aircraft leave a fading dot trail showing their recent flight path.
Tracked Flight Route — When a flight is being tracked, its planned route is drawn as a dashed amber line through its filed waypoints, with the destination ICAO labelled at the far end. The tracked aircraft's label is highlighted and shows speed, heading, and altitude. See Navigraph Integration below for how routes are resolved.
Flight Detail Panel — Click any aircraft to open a side panel with callsign, status, aircraft type, route, altitude, speed, and gate assignment. When tracking is active, the panel opens automatically and other aircraft cannot be selected.
Track from the Map — Click Track Flight in the detail panel to start tracking any of the airport's flights directly from the map — no need to go back to the board. An amber chip in the map header shows the tracked callsign; press × on the chip to stop. Tracking stays in sync with the flight board either way.
Find Any Aircraft — Type a callsign into the Find callsign box in the map header to search every pilot on the VATSIM network — not just this airport's flights. Pick a result to start tracking it wherever it is in the world, complete with its route, nearby traffic and flight detail panel.
Gate Display Link — From the detail panel, click Gate Display to open the full-page gate monitor for that flight.
Boarding Pass — Click Print Boarding Pass in the detail panel to generate a printable boarding pass with flight details, seat assignment, and airline-branded accent colours.
Nearby Traffic — While a flight is being tracked and airborne, all other airborne VATSIM aircraft are shown on the map as small white markers with fading trails, giving a live global traffic picture around the tracked flight.
ATC Panel — An expandable panel in the bottom-left lists active controllers. When tracking a flight, the list is automatically filtered to show only controllers at the origin and destination airports plus any relevant sector (CTR) controllers along the route.
Conflict Detection — En-route and approaching aircraft are continuously checked for proximity conflicts using ICAO-aligned separation minima. Conflicting pairs are joined by a dashed coloured line and the aircraft icon pulses with a coloured ring: yellow (<10 NM / <2,000 ft), orange (<5 NM / <1,000 ft), red (<2 NM / <800 ft). Conflicting aircraft also reveal their full data tag (speed, heading and level) boxed in the severity colour, so the pair can be compared at a glance. When tracking a flight only conflicts involving that flight are shown. Toggle off via the Conflicts button in the legend; the setting persists across sessions.
Weather Radar — Toggle a live global precipitation overlay via the Weather button in the map legend. Powered by RainViewer and refreshed automatically every 10 minutes. State persists across sessions.
SIGMET Warnings — Toggle significant weather warnings via the SIGMETs button in the map legend. Active SIGMETs worldwide — thunderstorms, severe turbulence, icing, volcanic ash, tropical cyclones and more — are drawn as colour-coded polygons. Hover any area for the hazard type, validity period, altitude band, and the raw SIGMET report. Data from the NOAA Aviation Weather Center, refreshed every 10 minutes. State persists across sessions.
Airspace Overlays — Toggle controlled airspace boundaries via the Airspaces button in the map legend. Shows CTR, TMA, Restricted, Danger, Prohibited, ATZ, and MATZ areas as colour-coded polygons with altitude bands shown on hover. Powered by OpenAIP. State persists across sessions.
Live Updates — The map refreshes in real time via WebSocket — no page reload needed.
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