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Author Topic: Why no commuter and mil flights on the maps?  (Read 3241 times)

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TGA388

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Why no commuter and mil flights on the maps?
« on: November 09, 2009, 04:38:11 PM »
Hi sorry if this has already been discussed on the forum, but I was wondering why it is that most commuter flights and all mil flights do not show on the map when they appear in the myflights lists?

I can probably understand that mil flights don't show up for security reasons, but why not aircraft like the CRJ and EMB types?

Rgds and thanks in advance, Dave

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Re: Why no commuter and mil flights on the maps?
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2009, 04:42:25 PM »
They are not ADS-B equipped

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Re: Why no commuter and mil flights on the maps?
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2009, 04:49:28 PM »
Ok, many thanks.

Rgds. Dave

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Re: Why no commuter and mil flights on the maps?
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2009, 06:38:40 PM »
Mil flights probably are equipped, they just don't transmit position data for obvious reasons
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Re: Why no commuter and mil flights on the maps?
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2009, 08:02:08 PM »
Mil flights probably are equipped, they just don't transmit position data for obvious reasons

Well there's an element of truth in that - many military aircraft are equipped with what's referred to as "ADS-B-out" or "1090 Extended Squitter" - they send some of the packet types, such as callsign and sometime airborne velocity, just not the position details.
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