Man Devises Genius Airplane Tracker For His House Near LaGuardia Airport

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How he did this was awesome. I wish there was a version for emergency vehicles, that way I don't have to look out my window every time I hear a siren lol. This guy is a genius, look at how he did it.

Jeremy Merrill lives underneath a flight path to LaGuardia Airport in New York. Merrill is a curious man.

After watching countless planes land at LaGuardia and wondering where they were flying from, the New York Times journalist/developer devised a system to display the plane's origin on his windowsill.

The software he created, called Flyover, basically takes a bunch of information that airplanes are transmitting via their transponders, runs it through a couple different programs, then displays the origin airport of "that plane flying over my apartment RIGHT NOW."

FULL ARTICLE: http://news.yahoo.com/man-devises-genius-airplane-tracker-190009130.html