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Old 06-22-2019, 02:07 PM
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Default Flight Aware shows plane flying without me!

Flight Aware shows my plane flying in VT but it is really in my hangar in TX..

I suspect I?m not the first on this so I?m hoping someone has info on the best actions for me to take - ie who to contact etc.

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Old 06-22-2019, 02:12 PM
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That's really odd. Could someone be using your N number to file or get flight following?
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Old 06-22-2019, 02:15 PM
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Controller probably entered a wrong call sign in (yours) and flight aware pinged it. Happens all the time especially if you have a shorter N number. Don’t contact anyone, let it go.
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Old 06-22-2019, 02:15 PM
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That's really odd. Could someone be using your N number to file or get flight following?
That would be my first thought. I have mixed up N numbers on company aircraft once in a while getting flight following and it follows the N number for sure.
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Old 06-22-2019, 02:17 PM
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I keep receiving a bill from some airport in New Jersey for a $10 landing fee for my Midget Mustang. It?s never been east of Colorado. Flight Aware shows that it?s a Cirrus or something.
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Old 06-22-2019, 03:42 PM
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The FlightAware report is a position only report and the flights are short duration so I?m guessing the cause might be an incorrectly configured ADSB ?
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Old 06-22-2019, 04:42 PM
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Someone has typed in your N-number (accidentally or intentionally) when configuring their ADS-B out device, and that’s what FlightAware is showing. You dont have to contact ATC for flight following or be talking to anyone at all for FLightAware to show your ADS-B track (note: it doesn’t work all the time...some flights never get shown...real reliable, huh?).

What can you do about it? I have no idea, but maybe contact your FSDO and see if they have an idea, just to be on the record as having notified them that someone else is using your ID. They may have no clue what you’re talking about however - some of them are still trying to figure out transponders, much less ADS-B....
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Old 06-22-2019, 04:52 PM
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That is happening to me also. There is a Bonanza in SW Florida that shows up with my N number. i called the ATL FSDO and explained it and was directed to contact the email that generates the auto ADSB check. Well, no help there. Called back and the nice gubment employee told me he had no idea who to contact about it. Still going on occasionally.
And they are trusting this system to monitor all us airplanes out there...Good luck.
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Old 06-22-2019, 08:22 PM
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I?m waiting for the airport in New Jersey to send me to collections over the $10 landing fee.

Brief glimpse of what we have to look forward to as various entities attempt to monetize ADS-B.
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Old 06-22-2019, 08:29 PM
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Flight Aware shows my plane flying in VT but it is really in my hangar in TX..

I suspect I?m not the first on this so I?m hoping someone has info on the best actions for me to take - ie who to contact etc.

Thanks
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