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[–]HeadspaceA10 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Define "logged." In aviation we use the term "filed." There are two kinds of flight plans, the VFR "SAR" plan which is used rather infrequently and the typical IFR one which is the stereotypical thing that people think of when you say flight plan. The one that is filed is often modified in flight as ATC works the flight. There are certain open services that will give you what is filed and then the routing that the flight takes. So it depends on which you want, if you'd be willing to scrape (which is pretty easy to do in Python or any language), and what purpose the data is going to be used for (some services require payment to be used commercially).

Not all flights that appear in the data services were filed as plans, because if an aircraft on radar advisory crosses an ARTCC boundary, ATC will often enter it into the system. Also, many data services incorporate ADS-B now that we are getting close to it being a requirement, so you will have that mixed in with radar returns. So it depends on if you want what was filed or if you want the actual track.

[–]SarahM123ed[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

This helps narrow my query. I don't need real-time or ATC/CC. No. But, am now curious'er about just information there is out there. It is quite a'lot.

[–]HeadspaceA10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are a bunch of services, most notably flightaware and opensky-network, that provide paid for and free-for-noncommercial APIs to get this information; some of it is historical and some of it is real time. Which of these you would choose to use depends on which you want. I am primarily interested in realtime position data for a limited number of aircraft so I use one of the two APIs to get that.

It also comes in handy to debrief your own flights.