A Flight Radar one

[Willowskyblue]

I’ve just been tracking DS’s flight to China and am fascinated to know why this is happening - see picture attached. I’ve never seen anything like it before but they’re over Russia, so maybe it’s that? The route is back to a straight one now that they’re a bit further on.

Image under review…

@jaynewayd Any ideas?

You might be better posting in the new group MN created, following us all posting all night during Storm David…😂

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/groups/flight-radar

Likely due to the detection system not receiving due to the remote area. It’s tracking where it can.

I can’t open that flight radar Mumsnet group, is it working for everyone else?

Thanks @ImpressionOf but I get an error message saying group has been moved!
@dovesquare thanks, that makes sense. Have a look at the most recent one!

Sometimes the reporting of locations gets a big wrong - spoofed GPS, remote areas, it generally doesn't mean anything would be wrong with the plane, just with the reporting.

I followed the link to the other thread and got a ‘group’, all the various flight radar threads are there. I’ve seen it once before on one of the ‘part 1, part 2’ type threads, it makes it much better if you’re following something. It seems to be a trial only open to some of us at the moment.

Screenshot incoming.

I often track my ds's flights to China on flight stats; it often does weird stuff and can reassure me less rather than more quite often!

However it also shows you the height the plane is travelling at which is often helpful to see it's steady; only once has a drop in height alarmed me, whereas the actual line the plane makes often does!

Are you following on flight stats as well as flight radar?

Basically what @FourSevenThree said,

The primary (but not the only) way the tracking apps gets an aircraft's location to plot on the screen is by using the GPS position the aircraft pings out to Air Traffic Control.

If that data is corrupted for any reason ( one of which can be GPS jamming/spoofing) the position on Flightradar can be all over the place.

FWIW in the real world onboard the aircraft GPS isn't the only way of establishing position, there are alternate methods.