Comment on Did you know you can track elons jet from mastodon?
pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 month agoADS-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
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I think the above user was referring to this: faa.gov/…/faa-moves-protect-aircraft-owners-priva…
They are no longer making the information public which aircraft belongs to whom, so in the future you might no longer know that any given aircraft belongs to Elon Musk or any other celebrity. You can still track it, but you won’t know what aircraft to track.
MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 1 month 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
pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 month ago
ahhh right! i see! yup that’d ruin everything 😭 you’d have to make some correlations to find the registration then
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Just sit next to the airport with a telescope on days you know he will be there. He would have to change IDs every flight to avoid this.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Yes, exactly this ^