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What are green areas on flight maps?

Regulatory Restricted Zones: Due to local regulations and policies, flights are prohibited within the scope of some special areas. Recommended flight: This area is shown in green on the map.



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Flightradar24 Support center Below are the meanings behind these colors: Gray: The flight is scheduled and there isn't an additional status available. Green: The flight is estimated to be on time or arrived at time. Orange: The flight is estimated to be delayed or was delayed.

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Flights in blue are to/from the airport being viewed. Flights in green are transitioning that airspace to and from other airports.

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On the map a coloured line shows the route of the aircraft. Purple colours indicate cruising altitudes. White colours indicate the plane is on the ground. As a plane takes off, the colours change from white, to yellow, to green, to light blue, to dark blue and finally to purple.

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The white line is basically estimated position while the green is when the aircraft is actually being tracked.

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FlightRadar can pick up when planes send out these codes and will mark a plane as red for emergency. If you really want to know when this happens you can set up notifications on your app to buzz you when there's trouble. You can set up notifications on the FlightRadar24 app to ping you when there's an emergency.

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In spite of the popular name black box, flight recorders are painted a highly visible vermilion colour known as “international orange.”

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Red: When an aircraft is displayed as red that means that you are currently following that specific aircraft on the map or that the aircraft's transponder is squawking an emergency code. These codes are 7500 (Hijack), 7600 (Communication Equipment Failure), 7700 (General Emergency)

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To answer it though, the green are aircraft not destined for the airport in question, the blue ones are destined for that airport.

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If it is above 100 meters, the trail will be yellow, and with an increase in altitude, will be green, and so on. If the aircraft's position surpasses 2500 meters in altitude, the trail will be light blue, and will then change to dark blue, purple, and finally red for the highest possible altitude.

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A note about Estimated coverage: when you see a dashed or gray line behind an aircraft, that's estimated coverage. Colored lines indicate actual positions. When an aircraft is out of coverage, we estimate based on great circle routes to destination.

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The first emergency code that you may have become familiar with is Squawk 7500. This code is used to indicate that the aircraft has been hijacked, and therefore requires urgent emergency support from both security services and air traffic control.

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SQUAWKing is the process of communicating between the air and the ground, the process is essential for keeping planes in the air safe and ensuring a smooth and manageable air traffic control process, both for pilots and air traffic controllers.

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These lights allow an observer to determine the position and direction of an aircraft. For example, if an airplane were flying directly towards you, you would see a green then red light (from left to right). If an aircraft were flying past you towards your left, you would only see a red light.

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A note about Estimated coverage: when you see a dashed or gray line behind an aircraft, that's estimated coverage. Colored lines indicate actual positions.

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