Originally posted by Mike
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FR24 just goes further than anyone else and pretty much blocks everything that is not an airliner, glider, propeller driven aircraft or Google Loon balloon. The policy appears to be a strategy to avoid even the slightest complaint from well-heeled operators who like to cover their tracks but in effect have little legal right to prevent anyone from viewing their flights because in most places it is public information that is streamed out into the ether by the aircraft. For instance, you can view many of those blocked flights locally on your own receiver and by linking to public databases it is possible to synthesize much of the same info that is displayed by FR24. The catch, of course, is that this only works for planes a couple of hundred kilometers around you whereas FR24 is global.
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