This week I heard an interesting briefing from some of the Dallas Air traffic controllers where they said the ADSB output is their primary aircraft location ?on the scope? when aircraft are ADSB-out equipped; then radar is used for position of the aircraft. I thought this was really interesting as they said eventually radar systems will be turned off just like navaids currently are on the chopping block. So ultimately low traffic radars will be shutdown as ADSB-out becomes more prevalent. I found this interesting because with many of the UAT sniffer set ups it needs to be in a radar environment to display certain pieces of data (squawk, Pressure altitude, etc).
They also had not heard of the anonymous mode option where a random set of characters is displayed instead of tail number when squawking VFR. So I?m not really sure how that is displayed on their screens...they suggested just calling up when in radar and asking what was showing up on the controllers screen.
They also had not heard of the anonymous mode option where a random set of characters is displayed instead of tail number when squawking VFR. So I?m not really sure how that is displayed on their screens...they suggested just calling up when in radar and asking what was showing up on the controllers screen.