I was recently nearly hit by another aircraft that then proceeded to verbally abuse my flying skills. When I display both tracking logs the other pilot is clearly in the wrong as he didn’t approach the airport according to FAR regulations at a non towered airport when I was already in the pattern and making calls.
He claims we neatly hit, I never saw the place as I was apparently on base leg with my wing up making left traffic. I want to play his log and my log at the same time and see the timing and altitudes of the aircraft and then review the flight paths of the aircraft.
You should be able to search FlightAware for the other aircraft’s tail number. That will take you to a list of its recent flights. Find the flight at approximately the time and date that the incident occurred, and click it. It should take you to the tracking page. Here’s an aircraft I’m just familiar with on one of its recent flights:
Then you can zoom in on the airport location, and move the flight progress bar at the bottom until it gets near the other aircraft’s approach. You should be able to see from his flight track if his approach was a valid one or not. You can do the same with your aircraft and compare them.
You are missing the point of the question. I want BOTH tracks displayed time synchronized on a single screen at the same time. So as I scroll the timeline I can see both flights.
Like what a controller would see if it was real time radar.
I already know how to look at two individual flights.
Okay, sorry, I misunderstood. I don’t think that’s possible the way that FlightAware works. FA staff could correct me if I’m wrong, but I think you’re limited to either the airport current traffic display and a single historical flight at one time.
Have you looked at software solutions to combine separate video streams into a single stream? Take a look at DirectShow and this project. You’ll need some coding skills.
The FA website doesn’t have a feature to do what you want here.
You could look at the individual track logs and plot the relevant positions/times by hand. (Note that the website playback interpolates positions - not every aircraft position that you see on the map is actually a position transmitted by the aircraft. The tracklog has transmitted positions only)
You could also download the kml files for each, and work with those, but I’m not familiar with what tools you could use there to synchronize the tracks. (maybe Google Earth just does this out of the box? The kmls do have embedded timestamps already)
Adding /?replay to the live tracking interface of the websites above might be what you want.
Note that times are in UTC, check the L / K buttons for labels so you know altitude while using replay.
Just providing a couple sites with that functionality, not sure about their coverage in your area.
(If one of the planes is using UAT coverage possibly an issue for all those sites)
