Good Morning Geoffrey,
Thanks for the additional feedback. Please understand that I’m not doubting your reports in any way. I am extremely concerned by the proliferation of reports of ‘latched aircraft’ and am just trying to understand what is going on and help try to find an explanation.
During early testing as part of the initial development of PAW Replay (back when there were only 4 or 5 PAW Ground Stations in existence), we realised that when tracks are replayed on PAW with the antennas in place, any traffic being received ‘live’ by PAW during the replay combines with the track file and gets shown on the Nav System display as if it is part of the original track file. The only way to avoid this was to pull the 1090 SDR (close by ‘high power’ 1090MHz signals can still be received through the pigtail without the antenna in place) and disconnect the P3i antenna to prevent reception of any local direct (or rebroadcast) P3i. Ideally of course, to protect the transmitter, the P3i transmit side should be turned off by selecting ‘Aircraft Type’ to ‘Base Station Rx’ in ‘Configure’ before removing the P3i antenna.
This results in ‘clean’ PAW track replays. The same thing is achieved by downloading the original Track Log and running it in Aircrew Replay as there is of course then no opportunity for ‘live’ traffic to interfere.
In your case, although at the limit of range ‘on the ground’ at 4 miles, it is still ‘possible’ that the nearby ground station is the one that is following you on the replay. I can’t of course comment on the other aircraft, though I wonder if they are also in some way linked via the Ground Station. Lee is obviously much better placed than me to determine this via track analysis, (without the necessary Linux skills and equipment I can only do this by manually examining the track logs which takes an inordinate amount of time) which is why he needs original track logs from everyone experiencing this phenomenon.
Together we will get to the bottom of what is going on and Lee will be able to devise a ‘fix’.
Best Regards
Peter