ATC Live

ATC Live is an air traffic control radio scanner and live flight radar app built for pilots, student pilots, plane spotters, and aviation enthusiasts. With ATC Live, you can listen to real-time VHF radio transmissions from airport control towers while watching live aircraft move across an interactive radar map.

Instead of switching between separate flight tracker maps, weather tools, and radio scanners, ATC Live combines live air traffic control audio, ADS-B flight tracking, runway approach paths, and decoded METAR weather reports on one screen.

LIVE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL RADIO AND FREQUENCIES
ATC Live streams real-time communications between pilots and air traffic controllers at major domestic and international airports. You can tune into specific airport radio channels for each phase of flight:
- ATIS and D-ATIS for active runway assignments, surface wind, and altimeter settings.
- Clearance Delivery for IFR route clearances, departure frequencies, and squawk codes.
- Ground Control for pushback approvals and taxi instructions between gates and runways.
- Tower Control for takeoff clearances, landing clearances, and runway crossings.
- Approach and Departure Control for radar vectors, altitude assignments, and ILS sequencing.

The ATC Live audio player includes a live waveform display, listening timer, background audio playback, and a live transmission text log showing controller and pilot readbacks.

REAL-TIME ADS-B FLIGHT RADAR AND AIRCRAFT TRACKER
The interactive radar map in ATC Live displays airborne and surface aircraft traffic around your selected airport hub. Using ADS-B flight telemetry, the map updates aircraft positions and headings in real time. Tap any aircraft marker to view:
- Airline callsign, 24-bit ICAO transponder address, and registration country.
- Flight status (airborne or on ground), barometric altitude in feet, and vertical climb or descent rate.
- Ground speed in knots, magnetic track heading, and one-tap tower radio tuning.

MAP LAYERS AND RUNWAY APPROACH VECTORS
Customize the ATC Live radar display to monitor airport traffic flow:
- Switch between Modern Light Map, Satellite Imagery, and Dark Radar Map views.
- Toggle color-coded runway approach vectors and extended ILS centerlines.
- Filter airports by All Hubs, Major Hubs, Live Tower feeds, or VFR weather.

LIVE METAR AVIATION WEATHER
Check current airport field conditions inside the control deck. ATC Live fetches real-time NOAA aviation weather and displays:
- Flight category badges for VFR, MVFR, IFR, and LIFR conditions.
- Temperature in Celsius, wind direction, wind speed in knots, and visibility.
- Raw METAR text strings for pre-flight weather briefings.

GLOBAL AIRPORT LIBRARY AND CUSTOM STREAMS
ATC Live includes frequencies for major hubs such as John F. Kennedy (KJFK), Los Angeles (KLAX), Chicago O'Hare (KORD), Atlanta (KATL), London Heathrow (EGLL), Dubai (OMDB), Islamabad (OPIS), and Karachi (OPKC).
- Search airports by ICAO code, IATA code, airport name, or city.
- Bookmark favorite airports and frequencies in the Airport Library.
- Add custom airports and radio stream URLs, and sign in with Google to sync across devices.

CERTIFIED FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR (CFI) DIRECTORY AND PILOT TOOLS
Student pilots working toward a Private Pilot License (PPL), Instrument Rating (IR), or Commercial Pilot License (CPL) can browse the Find a CFI directory by rating, aircraft type, hourly rate, and airport.

WHO USES ATC LIVE
- Student pilots practicing standard ICAO radio phraseology and ATC readbacks.
- Private and commercial pilots checking airport weather, active runways, and traffic flow.
- Flight simulator users and plane spotters tracking approaching aircraft while listening to tower clearances on ATC Live.