The Today Board: Military Flying So Far Today

Summary: One row for every military airframe seen today, with its callsigns, where it flew from and to, and whether it is new to the records.

The Today board is the day’s military flying in one list. Open it from the Today button in the map’s button stack, or with ukafg.co.uk/map/?today=1. Where the Live Military Board shows what is airborne this minute, Today shows everything seen since midnight UTC, including aircraft that have long since landed.

The Head of the Board

• How many airframes have been seen so far today, against an average day.
• The operators, aircraft types and departure airfields of the day, each with its count. Every one is a button: press it and the table shows only those aircraft. Operators appear under one name, however the different sources spell them.

The Rows

Each airframe is listed once:

• Aircraft and Operator.
• Callsigns — every callsign it has used today.
• From and to — the airfields its track started and ended at. These are worked out from the track, so some are blank.
• Seen (UTC) — when it was first and last seen today.
• History — First time in our records for an airframe not seen before, Back after N days for one returning after a week or more, or Also flew yesterday.

An aircraft that is flying now is marked, and clicking it opens it on the map. A filter box narrows the table by anything in a row.

Good to Know

• Days are UTC, so the board starts again at midnight UTC, not local midnight.
• The list is rebuilt at most every five minutes, so an aircraft that has just appeared on the map may take a few minutes to arrive here.
• For one airframe’s own history day by day, open its panel and look under Days this airframe has flown (see Reading the Aircraft Info Panel).

A Copy link button in the board’s header copies a link to the board that another signed-in member can open.