Timeline for How can a helicopter show up at 29000ft, 547kts at Flightradar24?
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| May 29, 2018 at 19:55 | comment | added | Rowan Hawkins | Unrelated to the correct answer below, in the US, Some military flights have the ability to change the transponder code or incorrect flight information is provided to controllers regarding a flights capabilities. Military, police and ambulance helo's often only transmit mode C | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 8:15 | history | edited | DeltaLima♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 19, 2017 at 23:52 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAviation/status/943267930309046272 | ||
| Dec 19, 2017 at 16:41 | history | edited | jps | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 19, 2017 at 16:21 | history | edited | jps | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
The speed was actually 547kts (see screenshot) not 247kts
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| Dec 19, 2017 at 16:08 | vote | accept | jps | ||
| Dec 19, 2017 at 12:49 | history | edited | CGCampbell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 19, 2017 at 12:18 | answer | added | DeltaLima♦ | timeline score: 15 | |
| Dec 19, 2017 at 8:55 | vote | accept | jps | ||
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| Dec 19, 2017 at 8:54 | answer | added | mins | timeline score: 10 | |
| Dec 19, 2017 at 8:02 | history | edited | jps | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 19, 2017 at 7:44 | comment | added | jps | Thanks Ben and Ralph. The recent data looks all more "falconish" than heli-like. For me it was just a surprise. I'm using FR24 occasionally but didn't notice such mistakes. Now I take the data from FR24 with a grain of salt and read more about FR24 to better understand how it works.@all Thanks again :) | |
| Dec 19, 2017 at 1:05 | comment | added | Ben | FR24 is great but every so often there are bugs like this. I’ve heard of people making complaints based on what they’ve seen on the website, even reporting a missing aircraft (which had simply dropped out of their coverage). Rest assured that the real ATC has much better data than what’s on FR24! | |
| Dec 18, 2017 at 23:37 | comment | added | Ralph J♦ | Wonder if it might be an issue with the Mode S registration -- somebody's database has a typo in it, perhaps? Can you pull up other flights in FlightRadar24 of that same aircraft and see if they also look more Falcon-ish, or if everything else looks more like a helo? | |
| Dec 18, 2017 at 22:48 | comment | added | jps | thanks for the feedback. No doubt there's something wrong. I just try to understand how the system works and how the data can be wrong. Good hint with the Falcon 2000, that makes more sense but still wonder how the data got mixed up. | |
| Dec 18, 2017 at 22:03 | comment | added | Sanchises | Obviously, the data is wrong, helicopters can't do this, you have explained it nicely yourself. What's the actual question? | |
| Dec 18, 2017 at 21:38 | comment | added | Federico | In addition to what mins said, in that area and altitude today @17:00 there were ~90-100 kts of tailwind. | |
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| Dec 18, 2017 at 21:24 | comment | added | Ron Beyer | FlightRadar data can have erroneous readings, I would not assume that it is correct. I would chalk this one up to bad readings. | |
| Dec 18, 2017 at 21:21 | history | asked | jps | CC BY-SA 3.0 |