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Offline wavecrest1

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Explanation needed from the experts ....
« on: February 27, 2017, 03:54:43 PM »

What causes the aberration east of Drogheda?

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-rjxb/#c942fc6

Offline Ed Winchester

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Re: Explanation needed from the experts ....
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2017, 05:40:49 PM »
Flight radar depends on ground based receivers to post information back to servers which produce the information we see

The media have us believe its a real radar display so when something goes wrong, ie a plane crash they jump to flight radar 24 and treat it as gospel

However when the information has a blip, for example a missed signal from the aircraft the program that displays the information on the website has a bit of a guess what is happening and if it gets it wrong then you get zig zags and other discrepancies

Thats it in a simple form. a real spotter will give you about 30 pages of explanation