Data Quality of displayed traffic

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Here in LOAV / LOAN the traffic density can be extreme sometimes. Not so many pilots use the app unfortunately. How is the process of getting better data quality especially of the MODE-S Transponders in the system? Can’t the ATC be required, to offer real radar data to be transmitted via the system. The data is here - why is it not published? So many near misses could be avoided…

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Hi Smurf!

You are absolutely right: if ATC would publish Mode-S data, that would help to make them ‘visible’.
Since the start of Safeky, we have been asking different ANSP’s , but they are all very reluctant, not to say ‘not willing’ to make these data available. We heard so many reasons, none convincing…
Amazing for national institutions who’s main objective is safe airspace use…
If you have any contacts in this ATC environment, please ask them also! Maybe one day…?
In the meantime, we have to find a way around: installing ground stations, collecting the data from all possible sources, urging pilots to become electronically visible, collaborating with all parties that have this same objective:
to create our own safety…
Paul

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See if you can get your fellow pilots and airfields to install ADS-B receivers in their locations. I recently installed one ay home that feeds ADS-B Exchange and ADSB.FI, two networks that SafeSky uses to pass on aircraft position data to SafeSky users in the air. Not that difficult to install if you have basic computer/IT knowledge. You can even purchase a “ready to go” receiver kit if you don’t have the knowledge or confidence to “build your own”.
Tony

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2024 was the start of many projects installing receivers (ADS-B, Flarm, Fanet) like the one from Avionix.

  • 3 belgium federations put some money together to buy 21 Avionix stations that where given to affiliated flying clubs to install on their field.
  • In Spain, national ANSP ENAIRE, together with all aeronautical federations is installing over 50 Avionix stations, financed by the governement.
  • Same project is going on now in 2 regions in France, financed by all the french aeronautical federations (CNFAS) : Britanny and in the North west.
  • In the french Isle ‘La Reunion’, it is the government that is sponsoring the installation of 11 stations.
  • Other similar projects are taking place in Norway, Finland and Germany

So nice to see all these projects driven by the community of pilots!