Pretty sure I watched the end of an Op while planefagging earlier. More pics and details in comments.
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So the airplanes transmit their GPS location by radio. It goes to other planes and receivers on the ground. A bunch of these receivers on the ground are networked to provide data to the websites we watch the traffic on. If there is no receiver nearby or the aircraft is low or in a valley, there could be no ground station receiving good data from that airplane it will show up misplaced a bit. I’m not sure exactly why that happens but you can pretty easily see where bad data is. Also I believe that planes aren’t mandadted to use this system yet, and I’ve also seen military planes turn off their transponders. We don’t see how the RUDY30 flight got to the area by the prison. It looks like the day before he flew to NAS Leemore
Yeah, that's how ADSB be. lol. This other one that was behaving extremely erratically was doing so directly above Vegas though. And also within close proximity to base at Coronado. It still had decent altitude at that time too, so building or terrain signal occlusion shouldn't have been an issue.
Military birds absolutely turn off their xpdrs when they don't want us to know what they are doing, but they need a pretty damn good reason to do so when flying through heavily occupied civilian airspace. Military gets to do whatever they want, but they still have to justify it to the FAA to a reasonable extent unless its a situation where the explanation is so secret that the FAA can get bent. These RUDY birds, ostensibly being cargo carriers, shouldn't be expected to be flying those sorts of sorties. At least I wouldn't think so...