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Surely Mode S equipment is cheep enough for ALL aircraft to be equipped with it, especially if they are operating in crowded airspace such as the South East of England.
I regularly hear and sometimes see aircraft flying near me including those powered by Merlin engines and not showing up on FR24 or ADS B Exchange. The Merlin engined ones are almost certainly operating out of Biggin Hill and headed to Beach Head.
Why??? The Mk 1 Eyeball is not infallible.
I regularly hear and sometimes see aircraft flying near me including those powered by Merlin engines and not showing up on FR24 or ADS B Exchange. The Merlin engined ones are almost certainly operating out of Biggin Hill and headed to Beach Head.
Why??? The Mk 1 Eyeball is not infallible.
Gnome de PPRuNe
The Biggin Spitfires sometimes show up, sometimes not. Haven't seen much of the P-51 though it does occasionally appear on ADSB. No idea if the TP-40 is flying yet...
Surely Mode S equipment is cheep enough for ALL aircraft to be equipped with it, especially if they are operating in crowded airspace such as the South East of England.
I regularly hear and sometimes see aircraft flying near me including those powered by Merlin engines and not showing up on FR24 or ADS B Exchange. The Merlin engined ones are almost certainly operating out of Biggin Hill and headed to Beach Head.
Why??? The Mk 1 Eyeball is not infallible.
I regularly hear and sometimes see aircraft flying near me including those powered by Merlin engines and not showing up on FR24 or ADS B Exchange. The Merlin engined ones are almost certainly operating out of Biggin Hill and headed to Beach Head.
Why??? The Mk 1 Eyeball is not infallible.
But Mode S on its own isn't usually sufficient for an aircraft to be plotted on the flight trackers (unless they are capable of multilateration). I suspect you are really talking about ADS-B, which is a different issue.
FR24 or ADS-B Exchange both use MLAT (multilateration) but this requires four or more groundstations receiving a steady Mode S signal, so a good ground-receiver coverage and, depending on the terrain, an aircraft altitude of a (few) thousand ft at minimum, is required.
With 'ADS-B Out' in the aircraft sending the GPS position, only 1 ground-receiver is needed. But this makes the onboard equipement a lot more expensive. And more complicated to install on historical aircraft...
With 'ADS-B Out' in the aircraft sending the GPS position, only 1 ground-receiver is needed. But this makes the onboard equipement a lot more expensive. And more complicated to install on historical aircraft...
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Surely Mode S equipment is cheep enough for ALL aircraft to be equipped with it,
PS Loved the mistyped "cheep" in a thread about " Squawking"

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I just had to go somewhere else with that...
Incidentally, Biggin's Mustang was briefly visible yesterday on ADSB-Ex, I didn't see where it went
Incidentally, Biggin's Mustang was briefly visible yesterday on ADSB-Ex, I didn't see where it went