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Old 13th Mar 2019, 21:41
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Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
Neither. It's a reference to ADS-B data captured by the Aireon satellite network.
The amount of information broadcast continually by ADS-B Extended Squitter is significant aircraft state, vertical and turn rates, FMC settings lots of information. In a relatively sparse area the discrimination of one aircraft's broadcasts would be relatively simple by Aireon (a hosted payload on Iridium Next satellites)
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