FlightAware certainly does not have direct access to Canadian radar data. They use ADS-B info from different sources including commercial satellite tracking services.
Sorry but that's not correct.
- Carson Air Flight 66
was not even equipped with an ADS-B transmitter, so the position data could not have come from ADS-B!
- FlightAware is one of very few "web" companies
with FAA authorization to receive
Class 2 ASDI feed from the FAA. Class 2 means they receive "near real-time" (5 minute delay) ATC (processed radar) feed directly from the FAA.
- The FAA ASDI feed includes position data from
all IFR flights in the US, Canada and optionally the UK.
- You can also see from the
FlightAware track log I posted yesterday that the Carson Air position data source was not from ADS-B but from Vancouver Center (highlighted in yellow):
