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  • Super cool. I like how you can hop from plane to plane. However, once I hop to a satellite, it seems like I'm stuck there. It'd be nice if there were more options from that point.
    by Retr0id
  • Please add a way to put in my exact long+lat location. Currently it is a slider which is not exact and search bar does not show my exact location. I am hoping to see the airplanes out of my window and then see them in this app.
    by smusamashah
  • Personally I prefer aisle seats. I am 6'2" and the slightly curved space on the window isn't as comfortable for me, same with some trains and busses. Yes the aisle has its own negatives but that's the devil I prefer.
    by Projectiboga
  • This is fun!

    Some constructive feedback:

    1. Maybe don't have the view limited by the position on the aircraft- autoswitching between sides would be smoother.

    2. Maybe just have double-click on an aircraft initiate ride-along. It's a little clunky and took me a minute to figure out how to ride along as-is.

    3. Some kind of overhead view so we could more easily pick out a plane we want to view from would be nice. As it is, I ended up firing up https://globe.airplanes.live/ to find the plane I wanted to view from, then tabbed back to your app to paste the flight number in.

    4. Add "reticulating splines" during loading as one of the messages (old Maxis SimCity reference just for fun :P )

    by RankingMember
  • Pretty amazing. One of those great sites that is just "wow, I would never have thought of trying to build that". And I'm glad you did.
    by stevage
  • Not working for me on firefox on linux.

    Console shows

    THREE.WebGLRenderer: Context Lost. index-DMul8aia.js:3819:24355 Object { error: undefined } Stowaway failed to start

    It also made firefox actually hard crash to desktop!

    by thinkingemote
  • I love this: the sound effects oddly are what really make it. It was quite something clicking a flight, turning round to see behind it, and recognising my location.

    What surprised me is how satellites far away (in the night zone, it's daylight for hours yet) could still 'see' me, or rather, I could see them not even that close to the horizon. I would love to see how far away one of the objects is when clicking or hovering over it.

    by vintagedave
  • Hi all! I'm the creator of Stowaway.live and I really appreciate you posting it here.

    All this attention has maxed out my Google 3D Tiles quota, so the ground textures in ride-along mode are being throttled. Everything else works — sky, aircraft and satellite tracking, sound — it's just the terrain that may come in flat or missing. I'm working on a caching layer and a proper fallback rather than just buying my way out of it, and I'd take suggestions if anyone's solved this before.

    Thanks for checking it out!

    by jheising

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