I bought the Aero Tracker and I begin to use it. I have a question regarding the type of usage.
I saw that we can use the Aero Tracker without the Safesky App running and we can use it with the Safesky App running. The difference between the two, being that the SafeSky App offers a wider situational awareness by combining traffic received via air-to-air, Aero Tracker LTE, and your device’s own LTE (provided your device has a SIM card). It is ok for that part but it is not clear to me if we need to run the Safesky App to send our position over LTE to Safesky server or if the Aero Tracker does it on its own (in addition to transmission via air-to-air (ADSL, OGN tracker,…))? How other pilots see me with Safesky App: As a safesky users (blue aircraft) or as a ircraft using transmission via air-to-air (black aircraft)?
I read some information on Safesky documentations which seems to say yes, and some other the opposite. I flew only with the Aero tracker (without Safesky app running) and I looked into my tracks on glidertracker.org. I didn’t find the track for Safesky, only the ones for the transmission via air-to-air. Pilots using the Safesky App can see their track on glidertracker.org with the prefix SPO XXXXXX.
The AeroTracker has its own built-in GPS and LTE SIM card, which means it can independently transmit your position directly to the SafeSky network, even if the SafeSky App is not running.
If you fly with only the AeroTracker powered on, your position is transmitted:
via air-to-air
via LTE directly to the SafeSky servers
and you also receive air-to-air traffic ans SafeSky traffic from LTE from your Aero-Tracker.
In this case, other pilots using the SafeSky App will see you as a SafeSky aircraft (blue), because your position is being sent to the SafeSky network through the AeroTracker’s LTE connection.
If you choose to run the SafeSky App alongside the AeroTracker, you can still connect SkyDemon (or any other compatible navigation software) to the AeroTracker and benefit from additional SafeSky features at the same time.
What the SafeSky App mainly adds is:
The radar view
Smart proximity alerts
Alerts that trigger only when something genuinely requires your attention
For example, when connected simultaneously to SkyDemon, you may see traffic at a larger scale (such as gliders 8–10 minutes ahead), which provides broad situational awareness.
Thank you for the clarification, as I was not sure about the functionning due to the track not visible on glidertracker. I think I will still use the Aero Tracker with the SafeSky App as it brings additional interesting features.
