Comment by foota
Comment by foota 4 days ago
The FCC and the FAA are two federal agencies that really don't want to mess with, so I hope for their sake they didn't actually spoof it. (.... I wish there were an FBB as well)
Comment by foota 4 days ago
The FCC and the FAA are two federal agencies that really don't want to mess with, so I hope for their sake they didn't actually spoof it. (.... I wish there were an FBB as well)
Maybe not "rely" on, but some definitely use public ADS-B aggregator sites.
I highly doubt any ATC on duty is looking at a public ADS-B aggregator as a real time source of information for his or her job.
There are non-radar towers that don't have scopes. They may have a traffic display, or maybe not. They might choose to use a public ADS-B aggregator site because it gives them situational awareness, but they don't use it to provide radar services to aircraft. That's my understanding from listening to a lot podcast episodes with air traffic controllers, anyway. I think it's an unofficial, non-FAA approved kind of thing that can make their jobs easier.
See https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/atc_html... for non-radar ATC procedures.
if there is any critical aviation service using a 3rd party website that relies on volunteer reporting of data, they deserve whatever happens
Seems like it wasn't actually spoofed radio signals, but spoofed data collection uploaded to adsbexchange. Still seems unlikely to make the FAA happy, but not as bad. I assume air traffic controllers aren't relying on adsbexchange?