So I recently bought the app, and a few things struck me as odd..
Obviously you have the mode s hex code if youre showing the aircraft, why cant it simply run that through the public FAA site and display a N number and accurate type and owner info? "Private owner".... come on now, the data is there, its free and its public, frankly this would be a lot more useful compared to many of the other cosmetic features.
Or is there a setting I'm not seeing?
Finally, I notice this app is hit or miss on blocked N numbers, it showed Bernie Sanders huge leased jet which was blocked (which he obviously didnt want to publicize due to his whole anti 1%er image), but on other aircraft it doesn't, as a professional pilot, and owner of a blocked tailnumber aircraft myself, the whole "they might encrypt the data" is hogwash, the system in already in place and the 2020 mandates ink is already dry, they aint going to be making sweeping changes.
But the big bug I see is not displaying the type and actual owner based on the mode S, I dont understand why that is??
Obviously you have the mode s hex code if youre showing the aircraft, why cant it simply run that through the public FAA site and display a N number and accurate type and owner info? "Private owner".... come on now, the data is there, its free and its public, frankly this would be a lot more useful compared to many of the other cosmetic features.
Or is there a setting I'm not seeing?
Finally, I notice this app is hit or miss on blocked N numbers, it showed Bernie Sanders huge leased jet which was blocked (which he obviously didnt want to publicize due to his whole anti 1%er image), but on other aircraft it doesn't, as a professional pilot, and owner of a blocked tailnumber aircraft myself, the whole "they might encrypt the data" is hogwash, the system in already in place and the 2020 mandates ink is already dry, they aint going to be making sweeping changes.
But the big bug I see is not displaying the type and actual owner based on the mode S, I dont understand why that is??
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