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cobychapple
Fun irony (beyond being Friday the 13th): FAA lost radar and frequencies between centers but ADS-B is broadcast by the planes themselves, so a couple hundred hobbyist receivers probably kept the full picture the whole time.
monkeymeister
Wow, impressive TTM. Barely enough time for the domain to resolve!
gvsi
I remember seeing a similar cool GIF for 9/11 flights, and thought it'd be cool to see if for today's ground stop too, and had Claude Code generate the website in ~30 mins.

Liked it so much and thought I'd clean it up a bit, deploy, and share :) Enjoy!

thirtygeo
Everyone I shared this with while stuck in transit today loved it. Thanks for inspiring some good vibes in Montreal!
relyks
This is awesome! Thanks so much for sharing? Would you be up for sharing your prompt or transcript session? Lol
dheerajvs
Could you please and a carbon emissions chart too? Thanks!
bmfischer3
What’s underlying data source for it all?
gvsi
Flight positions: adsb.fi community ADS-B network. Airport delay feed: FAA NAS Status
joshgermon
I had the same idea (https://germon.me/experiments/ground-stop/), this is awesome, great stuff

Something about planes and data visualisation I love, been focus of so many of my random side projects

singhkays
Way cooler but maybe the red exploding circles and "departures lost" are not the best visuals in this instance :)
krferriter
Very cool. Is this only commercial aircraft? Would be interesting to see if general aviation VFR craft also decreased even though they were technically still allowed to fly as long as it wasn’t from ATC controlled air strips. Though you wouldn’t be able to show it relative to the “expected” number of flights since they aren’t on scheduled flight routes.
ydna404
There's no way they fly that fast
bilekas
You can see the timestamp in the top left corner of the map you know?
Angostura
Would love to see the underlying prompt(s) for these kind of project
enzoescipy
Impressive, and I really couldn't get the point of that shutdown. What was happened? (I am not living in U.S though)
noduerme
It's cool to watch how at 5am ET, Memphis just explodes with FedEx flights in every direction while the rest of the country is asleep.