This is a live approach-controller's view of Dubai International (OMDB, UAE). Every blip is a real aeroplane in the air right now, with its real callsign, altitude, ground speed and track, fed by community ADS-B receivers and refreshed every ~10 seconds.
📡 Open the live Dubai radarRunways: 12L/30R and 12R/30L (parallel).
The world's busiest international airport by passengers runs two close parallels in mixed mode. The 30s are used most of the year; a shamal or sea breeze can flip the field to the 12s with approaches over the Gulf.
Emirates' entire A380 and 777 fleet — the largest widebody operation on earth — with flydubai 737 MAXs filling the gaps. Peak banks land between 00:00 and 03:00 and again mid-morning; the overnight rush is the busiest scope on the site.
Flight trackers show you a map. ATC Guy shows you what an air traffic controller actually works with: a dark scope, range rings, data blocks and the final approach corridor. The active runway is not guessed — it is measured from the real landing stream, so when Dubai switches runways, the scope switches with it. Tap any data block for the aeroplane's real altitude, speed, track and vertical rate.
Watching is free; so is working. In LIVE mode, real arrivals are handed over to you as they enter the sector — from that moment they take your instructions. Vector them, line them up, land them. Separation rules apply exactly as in the campaign: 3 miles or 1,000 feet, with wake-turbulence spacing behind heavies. At the end of the session you get a shift report — handovers, landings, alerts — to share.
Heavies everywhere. Wake turbulence spacing matters more here than anywhere else: an A380 ahead means extra miles for whatever follows.
🎮 Play the full gameAirliners broadcast their position, altitude and identity over ADS-B. Volunteers around Dubai receive those signals and share them through public feeds; ATC Guy polls the feed, projects the positions onto the scope and dead-reckons between updates so the aeroplanes move smoothly. Landings are detected from the data, and the runway in use is inferred from where the landing stream actually lines up — read more in how the runway in use is decided and how to read a radar scope.
Yes — this page opens a live radar scope over OMDB with real arrivals and real callsigns, updating from public ADS-B feeds. No signup; free in your browser.
Yes. Real arrivals are handed to you as they enter the sector and you vector, sequence and land them in a game layer. Positions can be delayed — this is a game, not a real ATC tool.
12L/30R and 12R/30L (parallel). The scope measures the runway in use from the real landing stream rather than assuming it.
Community ADS-B receivers via public feeds such as adsb.lol, polled every ~10 seconds.
Watching is free and unlimited. Taking the live position is free once per day; Radar Pro ($14.99 one-time or $3.99/month) removes the limit and opens the full campaign.
More live radars:
Istanbul Airport · Athens International · Amsterdam Schiphol · Zurich Airport · London Heathrow · New York JFK · Tokyo Haneda · Hong Kong International · Madrid Barajas · Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson · Innsbruck Airport
ATC Guy is a free browser game. Live positions come from community ADS-B receivers (adsb.lol) and update every ~10 seconds. Not for real-world navigation. Contact