• Pup Biru@aussie.zone
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    16 hours 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

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        1 hour 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.

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        11 hours 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

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        12 hours ago

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