# Delay? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [October 29, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/delay/93 "2005-10-29T19:40:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AV8NLVR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ccd318/32.png) [@AV8NLVR](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/AV8NLVR)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/delay/93/1 "2005-10-29T19:40:13Z")
Is the flight information delayed at all or is it real time? For example, I watched a couple of contrails overhead but did not see flights on the airport-area map immediately afterward. Bruce ---
**Author:** ![dbaker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/dbaker/32/97166_2.png) [@dbaker](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/dbaker)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 10:44pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/delay/93/2 "2005-10-29T22:44:22Z")
> [@AV8NLVR](#): > > Is the flight information delayed at all or is it real time? For example, I watched a couple of contrails overhead but did not see flights on the airport-area map immediately afterward. Hi, Bruce. As we cover in the [FAQ](http://flightaware.com/about/faq.rvt#howlive), the data is currently six minutes delayed. We’re working on alternatives to eliminate that delay but that’s out of our control at this time. ---
**Author:** ![AV8NLVR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ccd318/32.png) [@AV8NLVR](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/AV8NLVR)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/delay/93/3 "2005-10-30T00:03:01Z")
ok, but I think the airport-activity map must be real time. Today I looked up my airport’s activity map and there was a green flight on there, located near a familiar county line. Then, I typd in that flight ID and went to the lat/long table and typed in the most recent one, which was indeed 6 minutes behind, and it showed just east of the county line. But then i went back to the airport activity map and the flight track was 30 miles WEST…the lat/long did not show it in that location for about 5 more minutes. Do you know if the map is realtime? I’m thinking that must be the case. And also, I’m having trouble with the coordinates. When I type them into mapquest it is showing a slightly different location than the flight track shows, usually a little bit to the south by maybe 20 miles or so. The lat/long coordinates never seem to match up with the flight track line when compared on another map. ---
**Author:** ![mduell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/mduell/32/115680_2.png) [@mduell](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/mduell)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2005, 1:39am UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/delay/93/4 "2005-10-30T01:39:12Z")
> [@AV8NLVR](#): > > ok, but I think the airport-activity map must be real time. Today I looked up my airport’s activity map and there was a green flight on there, located near a familiar county line. Then, I typd in that flight ID and went to the lat/long table and typed in the most recent one, which was indeed 6 minutes behind, and it showed just east of the county line. But then i went back to the airport activity map and the flight track was 30 miles WEST…the lat/long did not show it in that location for about 5 more minutes. Do you know if the map is realtime? I’m thinking that must be the case. The maps are delayed just as much as the flight pages, about 6 minutes. The slightly brigher square indicates the flight’s current (well, 6 minute old) position, and the short track shows where it has been in the last few minutes. ---
**Author:** ![AV8NLVR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ccd318/32.png) [@AV8NLVR](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/AV8NLVR)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2005, 7:00am UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/delay/93/5 "2005-10-30T07:00:40Z")
I checked a couple of flights’ lat/long numbers against both mapquest and microsoft streets&trips and it appears that it is pretty consistant: the plane’s lat/long location is approx. 20-23 miles South of the green track line as indicated on the map that is on this site. And the contrails I saw earlier today when I was at work were also about 20 miles off. Then, I checked a flight’s position on this site’s map with the position shown on [fboweb.com](http://fboweb.com)’s map. fboweb displays the flight in exactly the same spot as flightaware’s map, however, the lat/long #s listed here correspond to a spot about 20 miles south of the real track. bruce ---
**Author:** ![mduell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/mduell/32/115680_2.png) [@mduell](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/mduell)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2005, 8:41am UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/delay/93/6 "2005-10-30T08:41:03Z")
> [@AV8NLVR](#): > > I checked a couple of flights’ lat/long numbers against both mapquest and microsoft streets&trips and it appears that it is pretty consistant: the plane’s lat/long location is approx. 20-23 miles South of the green track line as indicated on the map that is on this site. And the contrails I saw earlier today when I was at work were also about 20 miles off. > > Then, I checked a flight’s position on this site’s map with the position shown on [fboweb.com](http://fboweb.com)’s map. fboweb displays the flight in exactly the same spot as flightaware’s map, however, the lat/long #s listed here correspond to a spot about 20 miles south of the real track. We’re plotting the flight paths correctly, and we’re plotting the data that we display, so I’m not sure how those lat/longs are coming up 20 miles off for you. We’ll look into this.