Correct me if I’m wrong but airliner tracks are displayed properly on FR, even while low, on dep or appch. A different data feed?
The GUI is powerful but takes some time to learn. What I like about it is that you can go back in time and look at all the aircraft around you at a particular time. It still suffers with some gaps in coverage, like the others.
aart wrote:
ADS-B and FR has been getting worse over the last 2 years.
Agreed. In my area I now see frequent dropouts where previously there were none. The strange thing is that this does not seem directly related to removal of receiving stations as aircraft taxying on the ground are still shown.
Peter wrote:
Were you radiating ADS-B? If so, that tends to confirm my view that FR24 is abandoning the Mode S multilateration approach (which needs lots of ground stations) in favour of pure ADS-B (which can cover e.g. much of central Europe with a single decent size antenna on a hill).
Yes.
FA is much better, although it uses interpolation to fit a curve to your track so detail is sometimes lost, in the interest of delivering non-jagged tracks.
And the better alternative to FR24 is?
FlightAware… maybe…
And the better alternative to FR24 is?
ADS-B and FR has been getting worse over the last 2 years.
time to say goodbye to FR24. Complacency.
Peter wrote:
that tends to confirm my view that FR24 is abandoning the Mode S multilateration approach (which needs lots of ground stations) in favour of pure ADS-B
Same observation here. My ship sports ADSB in/out and is (unfortunately sometimes…) easy to follow, whereas friends I regularly fly with and “only” mode S equipped have their trace being lost (drawn as straight lines) for long periods. And it has been getting worse for a while now.
