For those who've not come across

http://www.flightradar24.com/ click on a plane.

Absolutely bizarre

I clicked on a couple of planes around Cordoba. One it said was going from Milan to Rome and the other from Cran Canaria to Lanzarote

I hope they don't use this for air traffic control

ETA another over central Spain is on its way from Glasgow to Bristol

Thanks for that, it's fun. One close over me on it's way from Leeds to málaga and another from Vienna to New York.

that's pretty scary if you zoom out a bit - you can't see Europe for planes

Looks like the Glasgow guys must have hit the whisky bottle early today.

Maybe taken over the cockpit and ordered a diversion from Bristol to the Costa del Sol.

Thats the truth

When you can't see the sky for planes is the time to start worrying.

A internet based shoot em up for al-Qaeda

Not wanting to hack the thread but attached is an interesting site to track shipping including cruise ships , just punch in the vessels name and track it.
One of my favourites is MSC Fantasia that visits Malaga on a regular basis, its enormous .

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/

Went on it last year, despite being huge the spray from the rough sea still reached our balcony on deck 12.

I think this site has *discrepancies* in the information it displays! The other day my OH's flight was disrupted by fog both at BRS and AGP. He couldn't get accurate info from EZY so I was googling at home and texting him. At one point I found the flight coming south, tracked it for a while, went onto another site for some reason and when I clicked again the flight had just disappeared. Never did find it again! Meanwhile I knew from him the flight had been diverted to Granada, but Granada doesn't seem to provide info on flights to that particular tracking site so it was one of those 'ho hum' mornings.

I first visited this site when the Queen Mary 2 made her first visit to Gibraltar.

My thoughts were what a useful site for terrorists.

try using www.planefinder.net. My husband uploads all the information for the Alicante area and it is spot on.

Yeah, I liked that site. Back when they had the flotilla hubub in Israel I tracked the boats.

That one looks good.... back to the boats, and I'm sorry but I couldn't help myself, I looked yesterday and there appeared to be no marine traffic of any kind in the region of Isolo del Giglio. How?