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For enthusiasts: the tips, tricks and habits that get you more of it.
Tips & tricks
Habits of the frequent flyer
Stowaway doesn't need a manual — open it and you're in the sky. But the sky is deep, and the people who spend real time up here have picked up habits worth passing on. This page collects them, and it will keep growing.
A taste of what the habit pays: one August afternoon we noticed a callsign sitting at 60,000 feet and spent the rest of the day riding a U-2 through a NASA wildfire campaign. Your sky will have strange days of its own. Here's how to catch them.
Start over your own house
The first flight you ride should be one you could walk outside and hear. That's the trick of this place — it's your sky, not a sky — and it never quite wears off.
Chase a sunset
At dusk, board something heading west. The light holds golden far longer than it does on the ground, and you'll have the best seat for the whole show.
Ride a satellite for the big picture
The space station and its neighbors are always up there. Climb aboard one and watch whole coastlines slide past, city labels drifting by from orbit.
Give the live channel your biggest screen
Our YouTube channel hops from flight to flight, anywhere in the world, around the clock. On a TV it turns the room into a window.
Hunt the strange ones
Airliners live in the mid-30s. When a callsign shows up above 45,000 feet, it's never boring — research aircraft, military trainers, and better. Ride it and see.
Click what you fly over
The towns, lakes and mountains along the route get named as you cross them, each with a road to Wikipedia. Half the fun is finding out what that ridge was.
Flying for real? Send your seat
Before takeoff, send your flight's link to whoever's waiting for you. They ride the seat next to yours from home, the whole way.
Ask Roger for somewhere beautiful
Supporters can just say it — “put me over the Alps”, “find me a sunset” — and Roger picks the flight and sits you in it. Vague requests welcome; that's the point.
Now go catch something
The sky over your house is doing something right now that it will never do again. Go and see what it is.