FlightView

Infobox Company
company_name = FlightView
company_
company_type = Private Company, Woman-Owned
foundation = 1981
location = Allston, MA, USA
industry = Aviation, Travel
products = FlightView Real-Time Flight Tracking Software
parent = RLM Software, Inc.
homepage = [http://www.flightview.com www.flightview.com]

FlightView is a set of flight tracking tools developed for the general public and commercial and private aviation by RLM Software, a software company based in Allston, MA. Introduced in 1994 as FlightView Dispatch, it was the only commercial radar-based set of applications available in real-time flight tracking.

For the general public application, families of travelers can visit the FlightView website to access free real-time airline-independent flight tracking information. For commercial use, FlightView’s flight data is used by aviation and travel companies in different formats and for a variety of reasons.

A real-time flight tracking system allows the user to know and graphically view up-to-the-minute positions and status of all aircraft within a specific area of interest in a given time. FlightView combines airline schedule data, airline operational data, and radar-based flight information for aircraft flying with Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) in or near the US and Canada.

Aircraft flying IFR transmit data such as airspeed, heading, altitude and lat/long position used by air traffic controllers as well as private users.

Other Flight Tracking Products

*Dispatch — a PC-based flight tracking system that uses radar and air traffic control data to generate information on all commercial and most general US and Canadian instrument flight rule (IFR) air traffic. Military and certain general aviation aircraft data is excluded from the display.

*Monitor — a visual snapshot of airport or airline air traffic presented to guests, passengers and online trackers based on a specified geographical location. Weather and aircraft traffic reveal the unseen sources of flight delays.

*Access — flight tracking data presented in different formats: XML data integrated into FIDS, website, IVR and scheduling software or a visual flight en route.

*Archive — flight history or landing reports showing far distant or recent history, trends, market size and audit of landing fees. It uses a multitude of search parameters and data is served in a table format that can be used in any spreadsheet program that is being used.

*Live! — a browser-based applet that enables website visitors to track a flight in real-time from departure to arrival. The flight data is autoupdated and animated for continuous tracking of active flights.