🇸🇯 Longyearbyen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
Longyearbyen is a small town in Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands. Real-Earth coordinates 78.221°, 15.621°, population 1,232. Empty horizons, no traffic and nobody else in the air — the sort of place you go to fly a long, low line and see what the terrain does. Skydex flies the real Earth here — the elevation, coastline and city layout under the aircraft come from the same data the map does, and the sky is shared with everyone else flying it.
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What you can do here
- Fly Longyearbyen in an FPV drone or as a gull, from 78.221°, 15.621° — keyboard and mouse, a gamepad, or a real RC transmitter over USB.
- Check the weather first: live wind, gusts and cloud over the city, plus the month-by-month flyable-days table above.
- Watch real traffic — aircraft overhead and ships on the water come from live ADS-B and AIS feeds, not from a script.
- Meet other pilots in the same sky: city chat room, radio, and the walkie-talkie frequency for Longyearbyen.