Sky View: private aviation on a real 3D globe
Fly a private jet across the world, land at the most famous airports on Earth, follow the jet set to Davos and the Super Bowl — on real satellite imagery and terrain. Free, in your browser.
Fly it in 3D
Pick any two of 180 cities and a jet, then ride along on a real globe — from the cockpit, the window seat or a chase plane.
Legendary approaches
St Barts, London City, Aspen, Innsbruck and more: twelve famous landings replayed on real terrain.
Tours
Davos week, the Super Bowl fly-in, around the world in three legs, chasing the sunset.
Range globe
How far can a jet go non-stop? See its reach drawn on the globe — and compare two jets.
Sky now
About 1,070 business jets are probably in the air right now (estimate).
What’s real here
The globe, the satellite imagery and the terrain are real. The flights are simulations: great-circle paths, published runway coordinates and typical speeds and altitudes — illustrative, never navigation data. Lighting follows the real position of the sun for each simulated moment.
Imagery: NASA GIBS, with aerial photos from USGS, swisstopo, IGN and basemap.at where available · terrain © Mapterhorn (CC BY 4.0) · 3D aircraft models by Nick the Name and BlenderCommunityHead (CC BY 4.0) · 3D engine: CesiumJS.
What we never do
We never identify, follow or publish the position of any individual aircraft or person. Sky now shows only delayed (30 minutes), anonymised, aggregated counts, and aircraft whose owners asked not to be displayed are removed before counting.
How Sky now worksStart with a landing
St Barts: the drop over the hill
Clear a ridge with a roundabout on top, dive for a runway barely 2,100 feet long and stop before the beach — one of the most famous landings in the world.
St Maarten: low over Maho Beach
The approach that made plane-spotting famous: a three-degree final that crosses Maho Beach moments before touchdown.
London City: the 5.5° dive past Canary Wharf
A glide path almost twice as steep as normal, between skyscrapers and the Thames — only specially approved aircraft may fly it.
Or take a tour
Davos week: the great Alpine airlift
Every January the World Economic Forum turns Switzerland into one of the busiest business-aviation hubs on Earth. Follow a jet from New York to Zurich and on into the Alps — and watch everyone else converge.
Super Bowl week: the private-jet fly-in
Few events move as many business jets as the Super Bowl. Watch the fleet converge on Los Angeles — host of the game again in February 2027 — and see where they all park.
Around the world in three legs
With a range of around 8,000 nautical miles, today’s longest-range business jets can circle the planet with just two stops. Here is how it would go.