This is a live approach-controller's view of London Heathrow (EGLL, United Kingdom). 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 London radarRunways: 09L/27R and 09R/27L (parallel).
Heathrow runs two runways in segregated mode — one for landings, one for take-offs — and alternates them at 15:00 daily to share noise. Westerly operations (landing on 27L or 27R over central London) dominate about 70% of the year.
British Airways and Virgin Atlantic long-haul heavies (A350, 787, 777, A380) alongside BA short-haul A320s, with Emirates, Qatar and Singapore A380s in the morning bank. The four holding stacks — Bovingdon, Lambourne, Biggin, Ockham — feed one continuous 2.5-mile-spaced final.
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 London 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.
Heathrow is a single-stream, high-density final. Spacing is everything: 3 miles minimum, tighter than that and the scope's separation alert will fire. Build the line early and let the aeroplanes fly it.
🎮 Play the full gameAirliners broadcast their position, altitude and identity over ADS-B. Volunteers around London 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 EGLL 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.
09L/27R and 09R/27L (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.
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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