Maho Beach Has A Webcam!

VS4ever · Sun Feb 28, 2016 6:30 pm

AF498 landing reasonably soon (next 10-20 minutes) if anyone wants to watch, just heard them call into the tower.

Toni_ · Sun Feb 28, 2016 6:47 pm

Wow! Thanks for sharing this William!

Quoting VS4ever (Reply 50):
AF498 landing reasonably soon (next 10-20 minutes) if anyone wants to watch, just heard them call into the tower.

Came just in time to catch it!

VS4ever · Sun Feb 28, 2016 6:51 pm

Well I don't care what I do for the rest of the day, that was just a very beautiful sight to see...

One day I am going to get there in person..

LY777 · Sun Feb 28, 2016 6:57 pm

I don't get why there is no sound?!

VS4ever · Sun Feb 28, 2016 7:00 pm

Quoting LY777 (Reply 53):

I don't get why there is no sound?!

There are two places for sound, bottom left, you will see a little speaker sign you can mute/unmute and increase sound.

Top left just above the actual video link, there is a link that will say ATC OFF, normally, click around there and you will get the same option to turn on and increase sound.

Works for me anyway.

par13del · Sun Feb 28, 2016 7:32 pm

To all, best I would say is that we go to their site and express our gratitude, you know the old saying, everyone thought someone would say something ........

Hey, I am in the Bahamas and we have some great areas for spotting around our airport but nothing compared to this.
We closed down our airport on Paradise Island year ago, Dash-7's only but the arrival down the harbour and over the bridge was spectacular.

I agree with all the other posters, I have stopped working because of this, job well done.

phatfarmlines · Sun Feb 28, 2016 7:54 pm

Quoting kq747 (Reply 17):
Cameraman doesn't seem to pan for arrivals...left or right

Quoting RTW00 (Reply 20):

Great cam. Hope the person who manages it zooms and pans on arrival as well.

Someone's been reading this site - I'm finding the cameraman (or camerawoman - we don't know) is panning more frequently for arrivals, albeit for larger aircraft or widebodies.

par13del · Sun Feb 28, 2016 8:07 pm

Quoting par13del (Reply 55):
Paradise Island year ago,

....should be year's ago, too excited watching the beach

LY777 · Sun Feb 28, 2016 9:31 pm

Quoting VS4ever (Reply 54):

Thanks
I Will try

spacecadet · Mon Feb 29, 2016 6:41 am

This really makes me want to go back there... you can see my hotel room on our last trip on the webcam!

b747400erf · Mon Feb 29, 2016 6:51 am

liveatc.net has a statio for TNCM too so it's nice to get coverage of all the frequencies.

kraz911 · Mon Feb 29, 2016 9:48 am

Hello all,

When first brought to our attention by @william, noticed the people on the stream counter was in the 800 at the highest. Yesterday it came close to 2000. So I would say the word got out. I wonder how high the daily count will get??

Also yesterday, I saw the "cam pilot" truly pan left and catch a 737 landing and held on it all the way to roll out. The future looks bright. Also saw them zooming at peeps on the beach.

A focusing test maybe??LOL

jetpixx · Tue Mar 01, 2016 4:30 am

I was checking this out again today, and will do so again tomorrow. Thanks for posting!

Quick question...I noticed for Tuesday KL 785 arrives AMS-SXM and then goes to CUR, flying in a triangle route. How long has this route existed, going from Sint Maarten to Curacao, and can you buy a one-way ticket between the two islands?

Thanks!

dc10lover · Tue Mar 01, 2016 6:15 pm

KLM 747 just took off.

dc10lover · Tue Mar 01, 2016 6:50 pm

Current viewers
Viewers: 1235

I have ATC on to listen to air traffic.

dc10lover · Tue Mar 01, 2016 7:20 pm

AA just took off to Charlotte. .

dc10lover · Tue Mar 01, 2016 7:36 pm

I love the close up shots when the airlines takeoff. So cooooooooooooool.

mham001 · Tue Mar 01, 2016 7:52 pm

This site has an incredible amount of trackers associated with it. It will not work for me unless ads and trackers are allowed in Chrome on Linux and Windows. Ghostery showed 62 trackers at work. It would nice to know which to specifically allow.

edit: it works to disable tracker and ad blocking until the page is loaded and then resume blocking. If not, the trackers just keep on coming, amazing really.

I'd like to know what kind of camera they have, great zoom.

[Edited 2016-03-01 12:04:40]

trnswrld · Wed Mar 16, 2016 7:18 pm

Can anyone else view the webcam? Hasn't worked for me the last few times I have tried within a few week period. Sucks.

jetpixx · Wed Mar 16, 2016 7:31 pm

Quoting trnswrld (Reply 68):

In the last minute I just watched the AF A340 land at SXM. It is working fine...haven't had an issue any time I've looked...I even check in in the middle of the night sometimes just to hear the waves. So lucky I was able to visit there!

trnswrld · Wed Mar 16, 2016 7:37 pm

Hum interesting. I just tried on my phone and it works fine. It was my desktop computer that wasn't loading it. Must be some sort of settings.
Thanks.

trnswrld · Wed Mar 16, 2016 7:51 pm

Does the sound match up for anyone? I can't get sound to line up properly in any setting. You hear the plane takeoff then finally see it actually do it like 30 seconds later.

reality · Wed Mar 16, 2016 9:06 pm

Picture and sound are in sync, for me at least.

vatveng · Wed Mar 16, 2016 10:15 pm

Quoting trnswrld (Reply 70):
Hum interesting. I just tried on my phone and it works fine. It was my desktop computer that wasn't loading it. Must be some sort of settings.
Thanks.

Are you running any ad or script blockers? The website has about 100 third-party scripts running, and they ALL have to run before the camera will display, so anything like Adblock or NoScript, or even moderate security settings in IE will block it.

ua900 · Wed Mar 16, 2016 10:55 pm

Wrong angle but better than nothing. Would be awesome to see a cam at the end of the runway so you see planes approach from afar rather than just getting 2 seconds of a plane passing the airport road.

Quoting Sooner787 (Reply 1):
Man, that's hard to look at when you're cooped up in an office

Get a 3M screen

stburke · Wed Mar 16, 2016 11:08 pm

Quoting vatveng (Reply 73):
Are you running any ad or script blockers? The website has about 100 third-party scripts running, and they ALL have to run before the camera will display, so anything like Adblock or NoScript, or even moderate security settings in IE will block it.

You'd think A.net is behind the web design with all the ads.

777Jet · Thu Mar 17, 2016 12:49 am

Because of the time zone difference I usually miss out on all the action, but, I finally was awake at the right time to see my first 'web-cam' landing a few days ago - it was a 727!

washingtonflyer · Thu Mar 17, 2016 6:31 pm

A340 about to land! Air France

BOSMEMFlyer · Thu Mar 17, 2016 6:55 pm

Quoting washingtonflyer (Reply 77):
A340 about to land! Air France

Way too cool! Productivity at work just took a major nosedive.

Frontier14 · Thu Mar 17, 2016 7:22 pm

Quoting BOSMEMFlyer (Reply 78):

Way too cool!

Frontier 14

CPH-R · Fri Mar 18, 2016 10:53 pm

There's been a J2 (Azal Azerbaijan) A345 parked at SXM for the better part of the week. Well, it's not staying for much longer. It has just pushed back - although it appears they're only now loading cargo and luggage containers

I guess it's been conducting a "government" flight (ie. taking members of the ruling family on holiday).

Quoting mham001 (Reply 67):
edit: it works to disable tracker and ad blocking until the page is loaded and then resume blocking. If not, the trackers just keep on coming, amazing really.

Personally allowing just Google Adsense was enough to make it work. I don't disable everything per default though, just ads and beacons.

PC12Fan · Sat Mar 19, 2016 12:11 am

I've expressed my awesomeness on this webcam already but I do have one complaint unless it's an oversight on my part.

I WANT FULLSCREEN!!!!

washingtonflyer · Sat Mar 19, 2016 11:07 am

Yeah, I watched the J2 flight being loaded and then departing. Was surprised to see its one of 5 A345s active in the world.

blooBirdie · Sat Mar 19, 2016 6:05 pm

How very useful: I opened FR24 while the Maho Beach webcam was active in another tab.

FR24 zoomed straight in to Saint Martin!

TheRedBaron · Sat Mar 19, 2016 7:14 pm

Holy cow.... this is better than PORN.

TRB

mtnwest1979 · Sat Mar 19, 2016 11:09 pm

Quoting theredbaron (Reply 84):
Holy cow.... this is better than PORN.

Now now, let's not get carried away lol.

One of these days will be there.

slinky09 · Sat Mar 19, 2016 11:40 pm

Quoting theredbaron (Reply 84):
Holy cow.... this is better than PORN.

TRB

I quite agree

TheRedBaron · Sun Mar 20, 2016 3:50 am

I have been to S. Marteen, its really beautiful and hanged at Maho for 2 hours, just to prop planes and a AA 757 landed, no take offs, but anyways it was awesome... (well back in 1991)

TRB

F9Animal · Sun Mar 20, 2016 7:10 am

Thanks for the link! I swear I spent an hour watching a little boy, maybe 2 years old! He would run from the little waves. Made me smile from ear to ear. That beach looks amazing. It's definitely on my bucket list! Can anyone suggest accommodations for a visit? Any all inclusive places nearby that beach? I could easily find myself spending a majority of my visit on that beach, and frequently refreshing my thirst at that bar.

lhrnue · Fri Aug 05, 2016 6:51 pm

Aircraft on approach circle. Airport seems to closed.

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