What is GREY line on FlightAware?

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.



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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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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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If the plane is below 100 meters in altitude, the trail will be white. If it is above 100 meters, the trail will yellow, then green, then above 2500 meters it will become light blue, then dark blue, purple and for the highest altitude it will be red.

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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.

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Yellow, Green and Red(Pink really) are basically used to indicate levels of rain. Green being Light rain with minimal turbulence and goes on to Pink showing heavy rain, hail with severe turbulence.

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Our most asked question on social media: “What do the blue planes mean?” Blue planes indicate aircraft are being tracked by satellite-based ADS-B receivers.

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FlightAware makes record keeping, fact checking, and logbook maintenance easy by giving you historical flight data from 3, 5, or 8 months back.

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Aircraft located using satellite data are coloured blue on the map, and yellow if located by terrestrial receivers.

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Yellow, Green and Red(Pink really) are basically used to indicate levels of rain. Green being Light rain with minimal turbulence and goes on to Pink showing heavy rain, hail with severe turbulence.

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Types of Airspace by Color
  • Grey Airplane or Helicopter icon with no color surrounding = Class G uncontrolled airspace. ...
  • Dark Blue = Class B controlled airspace. ...
  • Purple = Class C controlled airspace. ...
  • Light Blue = Class D controlled airspace. ...
  • Green = Class E2 controlled airspace. ...
  • Controlled airspace where LAANC is not available.


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