Just flew from CLT to SFO and saw incredible sites that I’d like to know about. Is there any program/offering that will tell/show me what I was over along the way?
You can use Google Eart. Somewhere on this forum is a method for converting the flight track to the KML used by Google Earth.
Perhaps if you describe what you saw in more specific words someone here can help you.
What flight number and date?
Thanks for your replies.
US Airways flight 1167 from CLT to SFO
3-Aug-2009
What the heck did you see? Where?
Google Earth Pro.
Well my friend you pretty much saw the grand ol USA
http://www.skyvector.com
Unfortunately, it doesn’t know what jet routes and victor airways are, so you’ll have to enter all the waypoints of the flight. You can also see TAC’s along with sectionals and Hi & Lo Alt IFR charts.
http://www.fltplan.com
You can get ETA’s from there.
http://aviationweather.gov/std_brief/
You can get weather from here.
http://www.nps.gov/findapark/index.htm
Find out where cool National Parks are. (i.e. which side of the plane do you sit on!)
Use the gray boxes with orange buttons at left to search for the tracking page for the specific flight and day. (Once you select the right flight number, you’ll see the most recent flight by that ID; next look up the correct date from the list at the bottom, and click on it.) I think you mean this flight:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AWE1167/history/20090803/2056Z/KCLT/KSFO
Then look for the link to the track log, about in the middle of the stripey table next to the map. Click on it.
Select the entire table of numbers and paste them somewhere you can edit it. The hard way is a plain text editor. The easier way is Excel. You want to select columns 3, 2, and 5 in that order (longitude, latitude, altitude), and save the result in a text file, separated with commas (a.k.a. a CSV file).
Then edit the file with a text editor, and put the following before that list
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2">
<Document>
<name>Flight track</name>
<description>Flight track</description>
<Style id="redLineGreenPoly">
<LineStyle> <color>bf0000ff</color> <width>4</width> </LineStyle>
<PolyStyle> <color>bf00ff00</color> </PolyStyle>
</Style>
<Placemark> <name>Flight track</name>
<description>Flight track</description>
<styleUrl>#redLineGreenPoly</styleUrl>
<LineString> <extrude>1</extrude> <tessellate>1</tessellate>
<altitudeMode>absolute</altitudeMode>
<coordinates>
Then put the following at the end of the file:
</coordinates>
</LineString>
</Placemark>
</Document>
</kml>
Save it and rename it to something.kml
This file can be imported into Google Earth (including the free version) or into Google Maps. For the latter, you need to make an account, log in, select “My Maps”, click on “Create New Map” or “Get Started”, and then click on “Import”).
Try this yourself first, but if you can’t make it work, I have the KML for this flight. PM me.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/USA1167/history/20090803/2056Z/KCLT/KSFO
There’s your flight. You saw flyover country aka the best part of America with the best, normal, real people. Sadly your flight ended in San Francisco which is a pretty place filled with whacko people. 
Ha! Thanks, Wazzu, for giving props to the flyover states! The bonus is I get to see a lot of cross-country air traffic overhead (verrrrry high overhead). High powered binocs and FA make for entertaining days. 8)
…Dami will be arriving shortly.
[quote=“CessnaCitationX”]
… just to say that “what do you have against whacko people? Don’t insult them by saying they are in San Francisco. What we have in San Francisco goes way beyond whacko!”
(Just because I live in the Bay Area doesn’t mean I like it. Ever since I stopped working in SF in 1983 (and that was only for about 7-8 months), I rarely go to SF. I think I’ve been there about 6 times in the last 3 years)
[quote=“damiross”]
Man I’d be there 10 times a year just to eat at Tommy toys. I love that joint.