# Flights disappear

**URL:** <https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/flights-disappear/9581>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [March 8, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/flights-disappear/9581 "2010-03-08T18:15:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![88nitro305](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ac91a4/32.png) [@88nitro305](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/88nitro305)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/flights-disappear/9581/1 "2010-03-08T18:15:03Z")

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Ok this is happening and it never use to happen but the flights on the tracked map keep disappearing after a few seconds… Its the green flights not the blue ones… I want to take pictures on high flying a/c thats why i’m interested in them

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**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:** [March 8, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/flights-disappear/9581/2 "2010-03-08T19:49:34Z")

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Are you looking at an airport map? If you zoom out too far it suppresses the vicinity traffic to keep the object count down for performance reasons.