I would be interested if Lee responds to Peter's last post.
To possibly confuse further, on 11th Jan, myself and another plane (G-IMPS) flew together. The owner having just fitted Pilotaware. You can see from below that the screenshot of my own Traffic screen at 3.46pm shows both myself G-NILT in grey and G-IMPS in red but his screenshot at 3.47pm only shows me G-NILT in red but not him at all !
Hi Gary,
I think this is consistent with what I said previously
If the transponder is close to the receiver, it is likely to saturate and not get detected.
This is not black and white, it is a grey area, so depending upon whether the receiver is overloaded or not will result in the detection of your own transponder
I think the reason you are seeing your own aircraft is because you are emitting FLARM, this is being rebroadcast to you, which is why you see
406C23 G ---P-U (PilotAware via Uplink)
your own transponder is not reported, otherwise you would see CSAP--U, which incidentally is exactly what is seen from G-IMPS, so the other PilotAware is seeing Your transponder (CSA), your PilotAware (P), and also your Flarm (---P-U)
Regarding the Grey out, this means it is filtered and not sent to the navigation device - which is correct behavior, as this is your own aircraft
Hopefully makes sense ?
BTW, you are getting great coverage, you are picking up 2 Ground stations FA52F7 and F41F21, so getting good rebroadcast of Mode-S/3D and Flarm/OGN trackers, G-IMPS appears to have 1 G/STN do the antenna installations differ very much ?
Thx
Lee