SkylarkGuided spotting
Choose a locationYour sky, not the airport's
Guided spotting · Ireland

Hear a plane? Look up.

Choose where you are standing. Skylark points you at each aircraft crossing your sky, tells you what it is, and logs the ones you catch.

Set a point on the map

Location is optional. We send an approximate area for live aircraft data. Your saved view and sightings stay on this device. For a precise point, set the pin in Listen on the map, then return here and choose Use saved listening point.

Aer Lingus A330-200 EI-LAX climbing away, with its winglets and twin engines visible.
Airbus A330 · Photo: Joe Ravi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Overhead announcements

Hear what’s flying over you.

Skylark tells you what’s approaching and where to look. You don’t have to keep watching the screen.

Try an example, then choose your sky.

Find it

Choose your sky

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Choose a location to begin

Or explore a clearly labelled demonstration.

Your selected aircraft in the skyNorth-up sky plot. Outer ring is the horizon; centre is overhead. Position is estimated from aircraft data. NESW 90° North at top · overhead at centre
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This is a visual spotting guide, not an audibility measurement or a navigation instrument.

Advanced viewing point and window

Set the part of the sky visible from your garden or window. Directions use true north. This does not measure buildings, trees or clouds.

Suggestions for you

Optional. Sends the interests below and a short list of aircraft with relative viewing information to rank them. Never sends your viewing coordinates or full logbook. Local ranking works without it.

Predictions assume the current speed and heading continue for no more than three minutes. Turns can change them. Positions older than 45 seconds are excluded.