Any planespotters use the Flightradar24 app?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ar24free&hl=en
As a casual planespotter, I've been using the flightradar24 app to keep track of planes i've seen. Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport has a really nice view of approaches of runway 8 on my drive home. After a while, you start remembering stuff like when the Lutfhansa A380 or the Turkish 777 comes in.
Sometimes, i might see planes from the distance, and I can only identify the profile, but i won't know what airline operates it.
The flightradar 24 app shows a map from your location and you can see the aircraft with reg no., flight info including the airport it came from and where it's going. There is also a really neat feature with "binoculars" that uses the camera on your phone. When turn on this feature, you point the camera at the aircraft, and the info on that aircraft comes up! Yes, the aircraft type, flight number, and airport info.
When you tap on the aircraft icon, you are brought to the jetphotos website directly to a picture of the aircraft. at this point, you can save a copy of the image, and you pretty much begin a collection of pictures of airplanes that you've spotted.
At some point, you see a post here at DAC, of a really nice model, say a 1/200 Cargolux 747-8F in the cutaway livery, and low and behold, I can account back to a time when i remember a CargoLux 747 flew right over me.... Yep, thats the one, same reg no. and all. This app definitely makes collecting a little more exciting