UK v US airspace last night.

[Turn7]

Im not a regular viewer of Flight radar. so I have no idea of what "normal" looks like.

Last night, pretty much at Midnight, I was looking at the UK airspace, and as the pic shows, it was as quiet as I would expect.

Curiousity made me then check the US ....tons of aircraft in the air....
im guessing a fair bit of freight, but even so, is this normal or maYbe why the US is having a hard time with C19 ?

[Tony1963]

Maybe it’d be more representative if you were to Zoom in on the US map so it’s a section the same size as the U.K. map.

[Simpo Two]

The US is a bigger area and has more people - so you need to correct for those before you can really compare them.

[MarkwG]

Midnight UK time, is 7pm on the east coast of the USA, & 5pm on the west coast...

[smack]

MarkwG said:

Midnight UK time, is 7pm on the east coast of the USA, & 5pm on the west coast...

4pm on the West Coast - 8 hours time difference.

[pip t]

smack said:

MarkwG said:

Midnight UK time, is 7pm on the east coast of the USA, & 5pm on the west coast...

4pm on the West Coast - 8 hours time difference.

Added to which, that is quiet for US airspace at that time of day. In 'normal' times, you quite literally wouldn't be able to see the map for the amount of aircraft on top of it at that zoom level.

[MarkwG]

pip t said:

smack said:

MarkwG said:

Midnight UK time, is 7pm on the east coast of the USA, & 5pm on the west coast...

4pm on the West Coast - 8 hours time difference.

Added to which, that is quiet for US airspace at that time of day. In 'normal' times, you quite literally wouldn't be able to see the map for the amount of aircraft on top of it at that zoom level.

Thanks, missed off the BST, I'm more often on the east side, & yep, exactly.