• Pup Biru
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    3511 days ago

    ADS-B is public broadcast though… if you’re in range of the plane, you can pick up its air traffic control data (elevation, speed, heading, registration, etc)… services like flight radar 24 don’t work on FAA data: they are a huge network of regular people across the globe with ADS-B receivers contributing everything they see

      • @[email protected]
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        1511 days ago

        Sure… Until he takes his private jet out of the United States of America and has to register the information with a non USA equivalent of the FAA

      • Pup Biru
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        611 days ago

        ahhh right! i see! yup that’d ruin everything 😭 you’d have to make some correlations to find the registration then

        • @[email protected]
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          411 days ago

          Just sit next to the airport with a telescope on days you know he will be there. He would have to change IDs every flight to avoid this.

      • circuitfarmer
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        11 days ago

        Yes, exactly this ^

        While I can appreciate the ADS-B bit, it seems clear that the change to public registration would still negatively affect tracking.