SW of Detroit, MI this afternoon there is something returning an ADS-B echo at 55.5k feet and moving at 15-19 kts. Assuming this is a weather balloon. Oddly enough, it comes up as "A332E1" Might want to consider getting a new emoji for balloon
It's a Loon Balloon N305LB. I think I saw that one over Wisconsin the other day when I was filtering out everything below 46,000ft to see how many were floating around. N304LB went by here the other day, currently heading towards Alaska or Japan over the pacific. I looked once for it and didn't see it then by chance caught a glimpse of it before the clouds hid it. The only reason I noticed it was a plane flew over and I looked at my dump1090 tab I leave running and saw this big circle on the map and was wondering what that was then realized it was an icon for a balloon.
Can't you come up with some sort of a Monty Python themed emoji for balloons. Maybe a cartoon one with Jules Verne throwing cows out of the balloon? See if you can work on that and get back with me. Thanks
