The white line is basically estimated position while the green is when the aircraft is actually being tracked.
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Flightradar24 Support centerGray: 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.
The dashed line is the flight's filed/planned route and is shown when we have that data available. That's the Wall to keep out the white-walkers. The dashed blue line is the intended flight plan route. The green line is where it actually went as tracked by reception of the ADS-B transmissions from the aircraft.
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. If the trail is a black dotted line, the aircraft is outside our coverage area and its position is being estimated.
The grey area there indicates that the aircraft is out of coverage ( an estimated flightpath is presented) for that part of the flight. The altutude graphic is part of the Skyaware map you have when you are feeding data towards Flightaware.
Red: When an aircraft is displayed as red that means that you are currently following that specific aircraft on the map or that an emergency squawk is on for this aircraft.
It means the owner has requested that the craft's details (tail #, filed flight plan, etc) not be displayed. Law enforcement helicopters are also blocked if they are doing something “undercover” where they don't want someone to know they are in a given location.
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Flightradar24 Support centerBelow 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.
Flightradar24 Support centerThe numbers are in meters. If the aircraft is below 100 meters in altitude, the trail will be white. If it is above 100 meters, the trail will be yellow, and with an increase in altitude, will be green, and so on.