Multi Level Aircraft detection

[davidhossack]

I have views of two separate flight paths. Effectively most of the planes that are shown on my JetClock are for Heathrow approach, which goes over my house. For this I only need about five miles range in certain directions, making sure that I do not pick up the planes approaching from the southerly direction, which I cannot see. As it is now this works well.

But there is another sort of flight I can see. Those at high altitude crossing London at 30,000 feet, which I can see a lot further away. 10 - 15 miles at least.

It would be good id we could set a “secondary” detection parameter that would show where nothing is close at the lower altitudes.

For me effectively:
Primary - Low and close
Secondary - High and far

Although that would be entirely configurable.

[oliverrees]

Great idea - hadn’t thought about a secondary zone but no reason that couldn’t be part of it. In the next release there will be additional filtering options including airline, origin/destination, altitude priority, and the ability to cycle through nearby aircraft rather than just showing the closest.

I'll have a think about how best to include additional zones - your use case makes a lot of sense esp as I also live under several flight paths and only have one programmed in at the moment!

[oliverrees]

Now tracking this here: #107