About
flightanalyser turns the recorded track of a single flight into a structured post-operation analysis: how it was flown phase by phase, how directly it was routed, what the light conditions were on board, and how it compares with other flights on the same route.
It works from recorded ADS-B surveillance data, and it says where that data is incomplete.
Anyone who wants to understand how a particular flight was operated, using figures that can be traced back to the data. The use is always informational.
See where a flight's block time went, whether it held before landing, and which side of the cabin had the sun.
Work through real flight phases, step climbs, holding patterns and routing allowances, with every threshold stated.
Place one sector against up to 60 others on the same route from the last 30 days, with sample sizes and exclusions reported.
Check what a recorded track shows about a specific flight, and what it cannot show, before quoting a figure.
Every flight passes through the same pipeline, whichever way it was loaded. One function analyses an upload, a lookup and the sample, so the three can never disagree about method.
One flight, loaded by flight lookup, route search, CSV upload or the bundled sample. Each becomes the same list of timestamped positions with altitude, groundspeed and track.
Rows outside physical bounds are dropped and points sorted by epoch time; a file holding several flights is split into sessions. Reported speeds are checked against movement between positions, and gaps are bridged with flagged synthetic points.
Nine phases from idle to taxi-in, and nine events that anchor every duration, chart and map marker. Thresholds use height above the measured ground elevation, not raw altitude.
Observed: Seen directly in the recorded track
Durations, distances, maximum and cruise altitude, groundspeed percentiles, climb and descent rates, and sampling statistics.
Analysed: Worked out by flightanalyser: an estimate
Cruise profile, holding, operational efficiency, daylight and data confidence. The route benchmark and operating pattern run only when requested.
Every figure carries its provenance, because the kind of figure decides how much weight it can bear.
Read from the recorded track, or computed from it by arithmetic.
Inferred by flightanalyser from the track and reference values. An estimate, not an operator record.
Supplied with a flight lookup, and shown as received.
A confidence score — high, medium or low — summarises gaps, interpolation, irregular or sparse sampling, and velocity data that contradicts the positions. Analysis notes then name each specific consequence, for example:
Analysis note7-minute gap during cruise; cruise levels and any step-climb timing across it are interpolated.
Where each part of an analysis comes from, and on what terms.
Flight data from Flightradar24.
Searches, tracks, gates, runways, airspaces, the aircraft's day, departure traffic, the route benchmark and the operating pattern are fetched from Flightradar24 when you look a flight up. CSV uploads don't use it.
Your own flight track CSV export.
Parsed in your browser. The file is never sent to the server.
About 8,800 airports with IATA codes: names, ICAO codes, positions and elevations.
Time zones are derived from each airport's coordinates and, near a border, can occasionally be the neighbouring zone.
More than 80 commercial types: manufacturer, engines, typical seats, MTOW and range.
Compiled from manufacturer specifications and type-certificate data sheets.
Coastlines, borders and runways for the route map.
Drawn from public-domain map outlines and the runway database; no map service is involved.
The bundled demonstration.
Synthetic: a simulated London–New York sector written in the seven-column CSV format. Not a real flight.
flightanalyser is for general information only. Its figures are estimates computed from recorded ADS-B surveillance data, which can be incomplete, delayed or wrong, and its analysed values rest on general reference figures rather than an operator’s own data.
It is not suitable for flight planning, dispatch, or any operational or safety-critical use. Its findings describe what the track shows, not why, and are not a judgement of any crew, airline or airport.
Load a flight by lookup, upload a CSV export, or open the sample.
