FlightScope privacy
Last updated 2026-10-28
FlightScope shows live aircraft positions from open ADS-B networks on a map. It has no accounts, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking. This page describes the little data that moves when you use it, in a browser or in the iOS app.
Location
Your device location is used only when you press Locate: the map and the optional range rings centre on you. The system asks for permission first, and everything works without it. The position stays in memory; it is not written to disk or sent anywhere by itself.
What leaves your device
- The map area. To list the aircraft in view, the page sends the centre and radius of the map (latitude, longitude, distance) to this relay, which forwards them to the flight data providers below. After Locate that area is around you. The relay keeps no record of these requests.
- Aircraft identifiers. Selecting an aircraft sends its transponder code or callsign to the relay (route, photo and flight-history lookups) and to Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons (fallback photos).
- Map tiles. Map images load directly from the tile providers below, which see your IP address and the tile coordinates, as with any web map.
- Fallback relays. If no FlightScope relay answers, the web page tries the public relays allorigins.win and codetabs.com for the feed request. The iOS app always uses its own relay.
Stored on your device
Settings (map style, units, refresh rate, overlays), the last map position and a small cache of aircraft type photos are kept in the browser's or the app's local web storage. Nothing is stored on the relay.
Third-party services
Each service receives only what is needed to answer the request and applies its own privacy policy.
Contact
Questions about this notice: chrisbhool@gmail.com.