Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
The reason for that isn't hard to work out for anyone who understands how FR24 and ADS-B work, and it should ring alarm bells with anyone who is thinking of trying to derive second-order parameters (not just track) from the sequence of static data points.
How about for someone like me who doesn't rightly understand this stuff?
Can you explain what you are saying down on my level?
Are you saying jitter or quantization in the received ADS-B data is such that subsequent changes in position may indicate erroneous rates and accelerations unless some form of smoothing or filtering is done?