What you’ll find here
Where does the data come from?
We don’t have our own radars or access to air traffic control systems. Everything we show comes from external sources – and we always credit them:
| What | Source | Licence / terms |
|---|---|---|
| Aircraft positions over Poland | OpenSky Network | OpenSky terms, with attribution |
| Aircraft worldwide, flight numbers, schedules (times, terminals, delays) | AirLabs – a commercial aviation data API | paid subscription |
| Routes and aircraft data | AirLabs (schedules), adsbdb.com | open data |
| Aircraft photos | planespotters.net, airport-data.com | with photographer credit and link |
| Aviation weather | aviationweather.gov (NOAA) | public domain |
| Airports and runways | OurAirports | public domain |
| Places | GeoNames | CC BY 4.0 |
| Base map | OpenFreeMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors | ODbL |
| Satellite imagery | Esri World Imagery (ArcGIS) | © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics |
| Country borders | Natural Earth | public domain |
The radar software – fetching and merging the data, the log of take-offs and landings, airport statistics, the “what is flying over me” calculations – we wrote ourselves.
How does FlyRadar24 work?
- Our server regularly fetches the positions of aircraft over Poland and Europe from networks of ADS-B receivers (OpenSky Network). Every visitor gets the same data – that way we don’t put a load on the sources.
- Aircraft from the rest of the world, flight numbers and schedules come from AirLabs. We fetch the schedule of a given flight once and keep it until the flight ends, and we calculate the estimated arrival ourselves, live, from the aircraft’s position and speed.
- Between updates your browser moves the aircraft along their track at their speed, so movement on the map is smooth.
- By comparing successive readings we detect take-offs and landings at over 1,100 airports in Poland and around the world. This feeds the statistics on the airport pages – what the radar actually saw, not the timetable.
- We check the route from the database against the departure point and the direction of flight. If they don’t match (common with cargo and charter flights), we show the departure airport or “route unknown” instead of wrong data.
FlyRadar24.eu is not an official source of aviation information. Scheduled times and delays are shown as a guide only – binding information (gate, changes, cancellations) comes from the airline and the airport. All data is for information purposes only.
Who runs FlyRadar24?
FlyRadar24.eu is an independent project that has been running since 2019. There is no airline, airport or big tech company behind it – the site is run by one person who develops the radar, writes the texts and answers messages personally.
The idea has been simple from the start: checking what is flying overhead or where a particular plane is should not require installing an app, creating an account or paying for basic features. That is why the radar works in your browser, for free. Have a question, a remark or an idea? Email us – every message is read by the same person who runs the site.
How is the site funded?
The radar is free and requires no account. Server and development costs are covered by Google AdSense ads, shown outside the map itself and clearly separated from the content. We don’t sell user data and we don’t collect your location – the calculations on the “What is flying over me?” page are done by your browser. Details in our privacy policy.
Found a mistake?
A wrong route, a missing airport or a typo in a translation – write to us. We fix reported issues as they come in. If you have an ADS-B receiver, consider feeding your data to the OpenSky Network – our map over Poland uses its data, so you’ll improve coverage in your area for everyone.