Global Air Traffic Simulation (cool video)

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[edzo4]

Global Air Traffic Simulation

A simulation created by a Swiss School of Engineering shows global air traffic over a 24 hour period.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XBwjQsOEeg

[edzo4]

I have seen the FAA videos of the USA like this but never the entire world

Pretty cool

[edzo4]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XBwjQsOEeg

[1rudeboy]

Related video with a related subject (you might want to turn your volume down a little):

[1rudeboy]

oops--click here.

[Kimberly GG]

yeah, cool.

i’ve decided that if anyone wants to blame any type of pollution on global warming...there you have it. Thousands of aircraft making giant circles around the earth, 24/7, spewing God knows what kinds of deadly and suffocating substances down upon us.

i’ll begin taking personal responsibility for my own garbage when something is done about the airlines, which isn’t bloody likely to happen any time soon.

[edzo4]

with my luck I would have been on one of the diverted flights

[edzo4]

when the world is 3 inches by 5 inches it looks incredibly congested, but it is really not when you spread it out over like a trillion square miles

[IronJack]

You can tell where the civilized world begins and ends, can’t you? Contrast this video with the Global Donkey Cart Simulation, and the differences will be even more apparent.

[1rudeboy]

True story: the only time that I refused to be bumped from a flight (it was the Sunday after my brother's wedding and I was hungover), there was a fire in the control tower in Detroit. My flight was diverted to Flint, where it sat for hours.

The flight I'd have been bumped to landed in Detroit before mine.

[Dallas59]

Completely far out!

[fanfan]

How interesting.

Thanks for posting.

Check this out, ping.

[KarlInOhio]

It’s interesting to find those places where there is just one flight per day. One I really noticed was South Africa to southern Australia and back. One little lonely plane over the southern Indian Ocean with nothing around for thousands of miles.

[fanfan]

LOL, they look like ants!

[fanfan]

You fly for FedEx?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[Former Fetus]

Thanks! My son just started taking flying lessons. He loved the videos!

[fanfan]

Hey, they are trying to save the planet, you know.

Dangerous airlift rescue for injured explorer Bear Grylls after Antarctic fall

It doesn't matter what it costs. /sarc

[fanfan]

You’re welcome.

I thought you’d like it.

:-)

[DoughtyOne]

I would like those of you who have larger graphic capabilities, to be sure to click the hi-def selection. The video is much more enjoyable in HD.

[DoughtyOne]

Great snag! Thanks.

[Kimmers]

No wonder my BIL suffered from major job burn out as an air traffic controller.....wow.....

[brityank]

Here's a site that has current Fight Activity arriving and departing at several of the larger airports around the US:

Pick one at Passur AeroSpace - AirportMonitor ^

or just stop into LAX ^ for a quick look-around.

Enjoy.       :^)

[toldyou]

Oh, that’s fun!

I was a flight attendant for United and can see us coming into the the LAX area...showing passengers the Hollywood sign upon approach, and then flying out over the Pacific on our way out of LAX.

Thanks so much...that was fun!

I’ll save the site!

[SouthDixie]

Cool video, in a frightening sort of way...

[toldyou]

Great! Thanks!

[fanfan]

Very cool.

Thanks.