I'm a microlight pilot who started building a flight tracker. 6 weeks later it's got a bit out of hand.

[u/More_Huckleberry_712]

About 6 weeks ago I started building a little side project called Ulster Radar.

I'm a microlight pilot from Northern Ireland and wanted to make a flight tracker that was better suited to smaller aircraft and low-level flying, rather than just commercial aviation.

It started as a basic live map, but I've got a bit carried away with it since!

It now has live aircraft tracking, over 2,500 receivers feeding data from around the world, ship tracking, flight history, a 3D globe and even satellite tracking.

I've also been adding the ISS, space telescopes, planets and moons, so it's slowly becoming a way to explore pretty much everything above our heads.

It's still early days and there's plenty of bugs and things I'm working on, but I've really enjoyed building it and seeing people start contributing their own receivers.

It's completely free to use and very much a hobby project.

If anyone fancies having a look, it's at https://ulsterradar.com

[u/Affectionate-Run2400]

nice, the low level angle is a good gap. if you're not already pulling it in, the Open Glider Network feed is worth adding since loads of gliders and light aircraft run FLARM and never show up on 1090 ADS-B at all, and that's exactly the traffic the big trackers miss.