BETAPlanes
A personal flight tracker with a dark-themed map UI showing live and logged flight paths, FAA airspace overlays, VFR chart tiles, airports, navaids, and an altitude/speed profile for each flight.
BETAPlanes is a full-viewport flight tracking web app built on Google Maps. It tracks real aircraft by FAA tail number, pulling flight data from a custom backend API and rendering the paths as color-coded polylines on the map.
Each aircraft card in the sidebar shows flight count, total hours, unique airports visited, and last flight date. Clicking a flight opens an altitude and speed profile chart with a scrubber that animates the aircraft along its track on the map.
Features
Live and logged flight path playback, FAA airspace and airport overlays, VFR sectional chart tiles, navaids, obstacles, waypoints, ILS approaches, per-aircraft stats, approach plate viewer, and daily activity chart.
Tech Stack
JavaScript, Google Maps API, FAA data feeds, custom REST API backend.