KMCO · MCO · Orlando, Florida
Planes near MCO: live flight tracking at Orlando International
Orlando International (MCO / KMCO) serves Orlando, Florida, United States. Central Florida, where afternoon thunderstorms build on schedule for months at a time.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around Orlando. The frame is fixed on the field; tap or click an aircraft to open its full details.
Nothing here is filtered. Military aircraft, aircraft in the FAA's LADD privacy programme and aircraft using temporary addresses all appear the same way anything else does. Open the full map to pan, zoom and switch layers.
Movements we watched happen
Snapshot written . This page refreshes by itself while it is open.
These are transitions the receiver network actually observed at MCO, each with the time it was seen. Nothing here is guessed from a timetable.
Why there may be fewer departures than arrivals
A departure is only counted once a receiver has seen the aircraft on the ground here first. That guard stops us inventing takeoffs for aircraft that merely flew overhead, and it costs us real ones: hearing an aircraft sitting on an airport surface needs a receiver with line of sight to that surface, which is the hardest reception there is. An arrival only needs the aircraft to have been seen airborne, and airborne coverage is very good.
So at any airport without a clear view of the ground, this list will show fewer departures than actually happened. If you see more arrivals than departures below, read that as a fact about where the antennas are, not about the airport.
| Time | Movement | Flight | Aircraft |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02:57 UTC | Departure | CSB926 | B763 · C-GVIJ |
| 02:56 UTC | Arrival | FFT1540 | A21N · N610FR |
| 02:55 UTC | Departure | VIR76X | A333 · G-VWAG |
| 02:54 UTC | Arrival | JBU2583 | A320 · N506JB |
| 02:52 UTC | Departure | OCN81 | A333 · D-AIKC |
| 02:52 UTC | Arrival | AAL486 | A321 · N551UW |
| 02:51 UTC | Departure | DAL1742 | A321 · N320DN |
| 02:49 UTC | Departure | ICE686 | A21N · TF-IAD |
| 02:49 UTC | Arrival | AAL2186 | N953XV |
| 02:48 UTC | Arrival | AAL2139 | B738 · N947NN |
| 02:46 UTC | Arrival | SWA3410 | B38M · N8888M |
| 02:44 UTC | Arrival | FFT3560 | A20N · N386FR |
Showing the most recent 12 of 24 in the current recording window.
What appears to be inbound and outbound right now
Where the aircraft in range right now are most likely heading, worked out from their callsigns rather than watched happening.
How this list is built
We take the aircraft the receiver network can currently hear, read the callsign each one is broadcasting, and look that callsign up in an index of the routes it has actually flown before. An entry means this callsign's most commonly observed route ends at MCO. That is a good guide to where a flight is going. It is not a flight plan: nobody has told us today's routing, and we would rather say that than dress an inference up as a schedule.
The consequences are worth knowing. A diversion or an unusual routing will be listed wrong. A charter, a positioning leg, or any flight the index has not seen before is missing entirely. You will occasionally see an aircraft here sitting on the ground on the far side of a continent, which is the method showing its working rather than hiding it. There are no scheduled times or arrival estimates on this page because neither can be computed honestly from what we hold.
For gates, delays and cancellations the airline and the airport are authoritative. This page is for what is actually in the air.
Inbound nearest 20 of 60
| Flight | From | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAL1673A21N · N428AA | PhiladelphiaKPHL / PHL | on the ground | 0 kt | 0 nmSW of the field |
| AAL486A321 · N551UW | ChicagoKORD / ORD | on the ground | 12 kt | 0 nmSW of the field |
| FFT1418A21N · N678FR | HoustonKIAH / IAH | on the ground | 0 kt | 1 nmNW of the field |
| JBU2583A320 · N506JB | New YorkKJFK / JFK | on the ground | 8 kt | 1 nmSW of the field |
| FFT1540A21N · N610FR | IndianapolisKIND / IND | on the ground | 17 kt | 1 nmNNW of the field |
| JBU2832A321 · N935JB | Las VegasKLAS / LAS | on the ground | 0 kt | 1 nmSSW of the field |
| AAL2974A21N · N459AN | Dallas-Fort WorthKDFW / DFW | on the ground | 75 kt | 1 nmW of the field |
| FFT1750A320 · N235FR | Cincinnati / CovingtonKCVG / CVG | 10,250 ft | 316 kt | 22 nmNNE of the field |
| MXY265N248BZ | Fayetteville/Springdale/KXNA / XNA | 11,200 ft | 294 kt | 24 nmNNW of the field |
| DAL1742A321 · N320DN | AtlantaKATL / ATL | 17,150 ft | 394 kt | 29 nmW of the field |
| ACA1098 | MontréalCYUL / YUL | 13,800 ft | 362 kt | 46 nmENE of the field |
| FFT4026A20N · N405FR | AtlantaKATL / ATL | 26,300 ft | 455 kt | 74 nmNNW of the field |
| FFT2636N645FR | St LouisKSTL / STL | 24,000 ft | 410 kt | 85 nmNNW of the field |
| JBU195A320 · N593JB | White PlainsKHPN / HPN | 29,425 ft | 430 kt | 96 nmENE of the field |
| UAL259N34535 | DenverKDEN / DEN | 24,000 ft | 388 kt | 96 nmNNW of the field |
| MXY821BCS3 · N267BZ | SalisburyKSBY / SBY | 30,825 ft | 469 kt | 109 nmNE of the field |
| JBU1334A320 · N827JB | San JuanTJSJ / SJU | 28,325 ft | 452 kt | 135 nmSE of the field |
| DAL2056A21N · N545DE | Salt Lake CityKSLC / SLC | 29,000 ft | 463 kt | 153 nmNNW of the field |
| MXY809BCS3 · N229BZ | LancasterKLNS / LNS | 35,625 ft | 439 kt | 164 nmN of the field |
| AAL3176B738 · N910NN | ChicagoKORD / ORD | 34,725 ft | 447 kt | 165 nmNNW of the field |
Outbound nearest 20 of 60
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JBU433A320 · N508JL | San JuanTJSJ / SJU | on the ground | 5 kt | 1 nmSSW of the field |
| JBU1075A320 · N509JB | Providence/WarwickKPVD / PVD | on the ground | 0 kt | 1 nmSSW of the field |
| VIR76XA333 · G-VWAG | Manchester, Greater MancEGCC / MAN | 5,075 ft | 283 kt | 11 nmNNE of the field |
| OCN81A333 · D-AIKC | MunichEDDM / MUC | 10,350 ft | 307 kt | 25 nmN of the field |
| ICE686A21N · TF-IAD | ReykjavíkBIKF / KEF | 16,200 ft | 391 kt | 50 nmN of the field |
| DAL888A321 · N105DX | BostonKBOS / BOS | 35,025 ft | 460 kt | 198 nmNE of the field |
| FFT2791N642FR | ChicagoKORD / ORD | 33,975 ft | 471 kt | 272 nmNW of the field |
| FFT4404A21N · N676FR | PhiladelphiaKPHL / PHL | 35,050 ft | 483 kt | 297 nmNE of the field |
| FFT2310N650FR | BaltimoreKBWI / BWI | 34,975 ft | 490 kt | 311 nmNNE of the field |
| AAL958A319 · N750UW | WashingtonKDCA / DCA | 38,975 ft | 458 kt | 382 nmNNE of the field |
| JBU846A320 · N729JB | IslipKISP / ISP | 37,000 ft | 485 kt | 390 nmNNE of the field |
| MXY419BCS3 · N204BZ | NorfolkKORF / ORF | 33,000 ft | 504 kt | 418 nmNNE of the field |
| FFT2594A20N · N317FR | Ewing TownshipKTTN / TTN | 36,425 ft | 510 kt | 430 nmNNE of the field |
| JBU1284A320 · N663JB | New YorkKJFK / JFK | 36,975 ft | 456 kt | 463 nmNNE of the field |
| VIR74WA35K · G-VLIB | Manchester, Greater MancEGCC / MAN | 39,000 ft | 543 kt | 512 nmNNE of the field |
| FDX2226B763 · N193FE | MemphisKMEM / MEM | 7,525 ft | 266 kt | 566 nmNW of the field |
| UPS1329B763 · N916UP | LouisvilleKSDF / SDF | 17,200 ft | 405 kt | 574 nmNNW of the field |
| SWA2579B738 · N8561Z | OmahaKOMA / OMA | 41,000 ft | 480 kt | 605 nmWNW of the field |
| JBU2919A320 · N505JB | AlbanyKALB / ALB | 33,025 ft | 515 kt | 622 nmNNE of the field |
| SWA3499B738 · N8656B | SacramentoKSMF / SMF | 26,000 ft | 461 kt | 627 nmWNW of the field |
About Orlando International
- ICAO codeKMCO
- IATA codeMCO
- ServesOrlando
- RegionFlorida, United States
- Coordinates28.429°N, 81.309°W
Orlando International sits southeast of the city on flat central Florida ground, with the Atlantic a short distance east and the Gulf a longer distance west. In summer, sea breezes from both coasts collide over the peninsula most afternoons and build thunderstorms in the same place at roughly the same time, day after day. Few airports have weather this predictable or this disruptive.
The Space Coast is close enough to matter. Launch and recovery operations close large blocks of airspace off the east coast, and traffic that would normally track that way is routed around it.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
MCO is the IATA code: three letters, the one printed on a
boarding pass and a baggage tag, assigned for commercial purposes and reused across
the world without any geographic logic.
KMCO is the ICAO code: four letters, used by air traffic
control, flight planning systems and trackers like this one. Its first
letter, K, marks
the contiguous United States, because ICAO allocates the code space by region.
The callsigns in the lists above are a third thing again. A callsign is what the crew typed into the transponder for this leg, so it changes flight by flight, while the registration and the 24-bit hex address stay with the airframe. When a callsign and a registration disagree, the registration is usually the more reliable of the two.
How to read the numbers
Altitude is pressure altitude, which is what the aircraft's air data system reads with a standard pressure setting. It is not height above the ground and it is not always the altitude the crew is flying to. Near Orlando that gap is most obvious on approach, when a tracker can show a figure that does not match what is on the flight deck.
Ground speed is speed across the earth, not through the air. A strong tailwind can add a hundred knots or more to it without the aircraft flying any faster, which is why two aircraft at the same level going opposite ways can show wildly different numbers. Track is the direction of travel over the ground, which is not the direction the nose is pointing when there is any crosswind at all.
Aircraft go missing from this map for reasons that have nothing to do with the aircraft. Reception is line of sight, so terrain and distance cut it off abruptly; a good deal of light aviation in the United States broadcasts on 978 MHz rather than 1090 MHz; and plenty of aircraft, including gliders and older light types, carry no ADS-B at all and are not required to. How ADS-B works covers all of that properly.
Other airports on the map
The nearest fields with their own live page:
