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by mseebach 3107 days ago
Major airports and some routes between clusters of major airports, such as western Europe to the US east coast are already quite crowded with several at capacity.

Also, flight radar, especially at the zoomed out views, looks a lot more crowded than it really is, the airplane-icons are huge.

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> Also, flight radar, especially at the zoomed out views, looks a lot more crowded than it really is, the airplane-icons are huge.

Plus, you can stack them on top of each other at different altitudes.

We need a 3D google earth-style rendering of the air space to capture the 3rd dimension.