Flightradar24 Query

[malagabob]

I have found lately that I cant get the pilots view or any other options when I select a certain plane whilst on this site.I keep getting the message. I need to download google earth 3d plugi. When I try downloading I get a 404 error message. I used to be able to get pilot view and other options. Any info to try please. i use google Chrome.

[Buenchico]

Chrome's developers are dropping support for NPAPI, which is required by the Google Earth plugin. The 64-bit version of Chrome lost NPAPI support last August and (given how often new versions of web browsers are released) it's quite likely the 32-bit version has now gone the same way:
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/09/64-bit-chrome-drops-support-google-earth-plugin.html

So that means that you can't use a Google plugin with Google's own web browser!

Your solution, however, is obvious:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/new/
;-)

[malagabob]

Thanks Chris

[Hypognosis]

For what it's worth: Pilot view, or "3D view" is supported in the phone App version.

I should call it "so-called 3D view" because it is really a pancake-flat satellite photo view of the ground ahead of the aircraft, with no actual ground elevation, as you might get in Google Earth. There is no pitch or bank data transmitted over AIS, so it not like a flight simulator experience.

The biggest disappointment is that, while Google earth displays super-crisp high resolution photos, which were shot by low flying aircraft, when you zoom in close enough, the app always uses the lower resolution satellite photos. These are fine when (in GE) you are looking at an area 100 miles across but are just fuzzy blobs when viewed close up.