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Steven Frischling, aka: Fish, is globe hopping professional photographer, airline emerging media consultant working with large global airlines and founder of The Travel Strategist. Fish has racked up more than 1,000,000 miles since he started to track his mileage in 2005.

Fish's travel tends to be less than leisurely, including flying from New York to Basrah, Iraq, for six hours; Hong Kong for eight hours, Kuwait City for two hours and traveling around the world in 3.5 days to shoot a series of photo assignments in 4 cities and 4 countries on 3 separate continents.

Fish grew up at the end of New York's JFK International Airport's Runway 4R/22L, which probably explains his enjoyment of watching planes, fly overhead. When not shooting photos or traveling Fish designs camera bags, hones is expertise on airline security and spends his time at home cheering for the Red Sox with his 3 kids 102 yards from the ocean.

iPhone ‘App’ Of The Week : iPlaneLive

05.22.2009 | Author: flyingfish | Posted in Uncategorized

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22/05/2009 – iPhone ‘App’ Of The Week : iPlaneLive

This week’s iPhone App Of The Week is for the Brits. I know some of the Apps I write about are ideal for North American based travellers, and many are for Global travellers…but what about Apps for the 2nd largest demographic of Flying With Fish’s readers?

Well…this App is for you!

This week’s iPhone App Of The Week is iPlaneLive, by Aspire Media is ONLY for those of you dealing with airports in The United Kingdom.   While there are quite a few very good iPhone Apps for tracking flight arrival and departures, iPlaneLive only provides information for flights arriving and departing from the 13 busiest airports in the United Kingdom.

The airports covered by iPlaneLive are:
Aberdeen (ABR)
Birmingham (BHX)
Cardiff (CWL)
East Midlands (EMA)
Edinburgh (EDI)
Glasgow (GLA)
London / Gatwick (LGW)
London / Heathrow (LHR)
London / London City (LCY)
London / Luton (LTN)
London  Stanstead (STN)
Manchester (MAN)
Southampton (SOU)

While the iPhone App has a few glitches, such as displaying flights from LHR Terminal 3 along with Terminal 5, while searching flights from Terminal 5, the accuracy of the information by iPlaneLive is fantastic.

For arriving flights the estimated arrival time is quite accurate, at times more accurate than the information I have found from ‘official airport’ websites.

For departing flights full status of flights is provided, not only will iPlaneLive display the standard ‘scheduled’ or ‘departed’ for flights that have left the gate but are not airborne yet it displayed ‘Taxied.’ I like this feature as it gives a more accurate depiction of where in the process a plane in while awaiting flights.

So for you folks who fly from, or transit through, airports in the United Kingdom…iPlaneLive is the iPhone App Of The Week for you!

Below are eight screen shots of iPlaneLive from my iPhone showing both arriving flight are EDI and departing flights for LHR.

Happy Flying!
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One Response

  1. Steve Ashley June 4th, 2009 at 9:15 am

    Hi Fish

    I’ve just discovered your website by following a link to this article. I travel a lot from the UK (usually from Norwich, which isn’t covered by this app) but need a wider range of flight data.

    I have just got an iphone for the first time and am bamboozled by the range of flight apps to choose from. You say above ‘While there are quite a few very good iPhone Apps for tracking flight arrival and departures’ … I wonder if you could tell me which you would recommend?

    Thanks, in hope!

    Steve

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