Where is the routing info derived from. Is it a just a db based on the the presented flight number? Or can it come the aircraft? Reason I ask is that I have a Belgian AF C130 on at the moment, Flight ID as BAF619 but shows the routing EGQL-EBBR (leuchars Brussels). So is this its actually routing or just some spurious info stored in a db?
Thanks
Graham
Quote from: GreekSpy2001 on September 07, 2009, 10:41:34 AMWhere is the routing info derived from. Is it a just a db based on the the presented flight number? Or can it come the aircraft? Reason I ask is that I have a Belgian AF C130 on at the moment, Flight ID as BAF619 but shows the routing EGQL-EBBR (leuchars Brussels). So is this its actually routing or just some spurious info stored in a db?
The route displayed is from a table in NavData.db3, there is no provision in Mode S for aircraft to transmit route details.
However it won't come as any surprise to you that the Belgian Air Force doesn't fly regular scheduled services, so any association between a specific flight number (e.g. BAF619 in your case) and a particular route is pretty meaningless and I don't know why it's even in the database.
I've picked the BAF Airbuses with this callsign on numerous occasions, heading in lots of different directions.
As suspected but threw me at first.
Ta
Graham
However, Leuchars show is Saturday. I'm sure there will be a Belgian presence. I picked up a Belgian Army A109 at the same time and it was reported flying over Northolt.....
So maybe.........
Que the X Files music
Begium F16 expected at Leuchars this weekend - http://www.f16demo.be/
Although FlyteComm (http://www.flytecomm.com/cgi-bin/trackflight) currently has BAF619 as en-route from EBBR to St. John's, NL, Canada (CYYT).