# Flight-Viz

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Flight-Viz and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free browser app that draws thousands of flights on a 3D globe and renders fast. Common caveat: planes are hard to spot and zooming is hard to control.

## Why people recommend it

- Renders extremely fast (1 comments): "It render extremely fast on my side" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605152))

## What people warn about

- Planes and labels hard to see (4 comments): "The planes should probably scale up a bit as you zoom though, they become impossible to spot." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606547)) "the planes are practically invisible with their color and thin borders" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606503)) "the airline flight number attached to the icon is in dark color and should be visible" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609684))
- Mouse-wheel zoom hard to control (2 comments): "Zooming on a mouse wheel on windows is nearly unusable, it goes from whole of europe to town level in one mouse wheel notch." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47607894)) "ux bug: when i zoom in, it zooms into the middle of the browser window instead of where my cursor is." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608022))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Flighty](https://hackerapproved.com/p/flighty.md): 42 recommend
- [ADS-B Exchange](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ads-b-exchange.md): 8 recommend
- [Flightradar24](https://hackerapproved.com/p/flightradar24.md): 6 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Flight-Viz", https://hackerapproved.com/p/flight-viz/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).