Reading the live map

The live map packs a lot into small symbols. Once you know what they mean you can tell at a glance what every flight is doing. This guide covers the map, the flight panel and the airport boards.

Plane shapes and sizes

Every plane is drawn as the kind of aircraft it is, at a size that matches its real length. A Cessna is tiny, an ATR 72 has straight wings with two propellers, a CRJ has its engines at the back, an A320 has two engines under its wings and a 747 has four. Even the wingtips differ: an A320neo has tall sharklets, a 737 MAX has split tips and a 787 has long curved raked tips. Helicopters show their rotor. If the type is not known, you get a standard airliner.

Lines and colours

Click a plane to select it. The solid line behind it is where it has actually flown, coloured by altitude: amber close to the ground, teal in the middle and blue to violet high up. The dashed line ahead is the planned route to its destination. On a finished flight's replay, the dashed line is instead the real path it flew next, all the way to where it landed.

The flight panel

The panel shows the airline, flight number, aircraft type and registration, the route with departure and arrival times, and the current altitude, speed and phase of flight: on the ground, taking off, climbing, cruising, descending, on approach or landed. A flight shown in red as Diverting has turned back or is flying far away from its destination; Diverted means it landed somewhere else. From the panel you can follow the plane with the camera, get an alert when it lands, copy a link or open its full flight page.

Flights without a number

Flights that took off without a flight number are listed as Unknown 1, Unknown 2 and so on, in the order they took off, so two of them never get mixed up. Two flights with the same number at once show as, for example, SJ680 and SJ680 (2).

Airports

Click an airport dot to open its board with arrivals, departures, the flights in the air to and from it, local weather and its real runways with their length, width and surface. The airport list covers over 33,000 airports worldwide, including every airport with airline service.

Replays

Every finished flight has a page with a replay. Press play and choose a speed. Many Roblox planes stand still for a while, parked at a gate or waiting at the holding point, so replays skip those stretches by themselves; you can turn that off. Drag across the speed and altitude graph to jump to any moment.