Duplicate aircraft appearing in ADSBX viewer

Discussion in 'Other technical not related to ADSBx Feeding' started by AM909, Feb 17, 2021.

  1. AM909

    AM909 New Member

    Using the ADSBX RadarView Tracking Map, I sometimes see two aircraft right on top of each other that are obviously the same physical aircraft, where one has a normal identifier that corresponds to a known tail number and the other is an "anonymous" id (~29xxxx) that shows a tail of "n/a". An example from today, 2021-02-17 at ~13:22 PST (UTC-8), was tail N1120Z (#A03611; source=MLAT, 23 rx) which also appeared as "tail" ~2983A6 (source=TIS-B, 3 rx). Speed and altitude were similar, but not identical. I have screen caps if needed.

    Are these two different transponders on the same aircraft or is there something else going on?

    I'll note also that I sometimes see aircraft that you would expect to have a non-anonymous ID and recognized tail number (like LASD helos) show up with only the ~29xxxx anon ID.

    (BTW, I tried to link ADSBX RadarView Tracking Map to globe dot adsbexchange dot com and it refused the post as being "spam-like". It should probably exempt links to your own site from this filter.)
     
  2. wiedehopf

    wiedehopf Administrator Staff Member

    There should be an explanation of TIS-B in the details for those aircraft.