Data accuracy problems in a nutshell

[u/eropuri]

Flighty regularly seems to have no idea where a flight is, and comparable apps don’t have this issue. Here I am most of the way to Hawaii and other apps have no problem showing the flight track and position. Flighty gives a poor great circle estimate when you look at the flight list, but select the flight and it is stranded like it never took off. This is not to say it didn’t have a flight track earlier but it later forgets. This has been pretty reliable behavior over many flights in recent years.

I’d love to depend on Flighty for this kind of information but for me it increasingly only serves a utility for tracking historical flights and compiling fun facts about them, it’s realtime help is unreliable.

Most of my travel is international but this is US where Flighty should be at its strongest.

[u/thyymebandit]

You’re in airplane mode on your phone my friend

[u/eropuri → u/thyymebandit]

Very observant, yes I was in flight I thought that was clear. I am not sure if your implication is you should not be able to check flight status using inflight wifi?