As the OP here after a discussion with Lee, I totally see the benefit of a groundstation symbol for groundstations, but in Skydemon right now the display of groundstations with an a/c symbol is more that an unsatisfactory feature, it is dangerous and would be considered in the test pilot world (my world) 'unnacceptable.'
Flying today under the edge of the London TMA, with large amounts of traffic around, heads in time needs to be minimised. The appearance of a groundstation on Skydemon can only be determined as a groundstation on looking in detail at the screen to see the "registration" of the groundstation - needless heads in time and distraction from other traffic.
At Lee's request I put the issue to Skydemon and this is their reply:
"Our policy is that we display every piece of traffic reported.
PilotAware seems to report a ground station as a piece of (albeit static) traffic, therefore we display it. The developer has always been of the opinion that PilotAware should not report ground stations as traffic, because they are not traffic.
Lee’s suggestion that SkyDemon ignores traffic marked as “static” is something we would be reluctant to consider, because we believe this marker is/was designed for things like static tethered balloons, which SkyDemon definitely needs to take into account when performing traffic warning calculations."
I don't mind too much where this is fixed - by PAW, by Skydemon, but someone should hopefully fix it? It's a safety concern.
Lee, can I really encourage you to grapple with this and maybe talk to Skydemon to come up with a solution?
Thanks!
JP