Planes are only visible after departing or suddenly disappear when landing

Modified on Wed, 8 Feb, 2023 at 3:44 PM

In the majority of these cases, the explanation is that the airport in question has bad coverage.

Flightradar24 coverage is only available in areas where someone has installed an ADS-B receiver and shares data with the Flightradar24 network. We are unable to provide coverage in areas where no ADS-B receivers are installed.

If you would like to contribute with feeding data as a host yourself to improve coverage in such locations, please see the following options:

Flightradar24 provided hardware: https://www.flightradar24.com/apply-for-receiver

Build your own hardware: https://www.flightradar24.com/build-your-own

Please see this list of locations where we currently would like to provide better coverage:

At major airports around the world (ground coverage)
Africa (Chad, Congo, Egypt in particular but also other countries are of interest)
China
Iran
Iraq
Libya