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12/19/2019 8:57 AM
 

Samsung TAB A

I hear the resounding audio alert that warns of impending danger and look at the screen to see a square box following me at the same altitude. 

This is not a ghost since I have I have the goast removal activated.

The square sometime come right up to the rear of my aircraft cusing me to take avoidance turns.

When I click on the square it shows zero airspeed at my altitude and while I am going east the target info says it is going north.

Sometimes it falls back and sometimes it just dissappears.

It is not a helicopter in hover.

I have posted a bug report.

John M

 

 
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12/19/2019 10:01 PM
 
John Miller wrote:

Samsung TAB A

I hear the resounding audio alert that warns of impending danger and look at the screen to see a square box following me at the same altitude.

This is not a ghost since I have I have the goast removal activated.

The square sometime come right up to the rear of my aircraft cusing me to take avoidance turns.

When I click on the square it shows zero airspeed at my altitude and while I am going east the target info says it is going north.

Sometimes it falls back and sometimes it just dissappears.

It is not a helicopter in hover.

I have posted a bug report.

John M


This is perplexing. I don't recall us having code to draw a square like this. Can you produce a screenshot of it? (maybe seeing the square will bring back a memory) Or maybe tell me the size and color of this square? Is it a perfect square, or a rectangle? Does it appear in all map modes? Does it appear in the EFIS 3D view? Sorry that I am drawing a blank on this at the moment.

Brian Knox, Sr Software Engineer
 
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12/20/2019 9:42 AM
 

The size of the box is about the same as the typical triangle presentation. The color of the box changes just a warnings from a close target.

I'll fly today and see if I get a duplicate issue.

John M

 
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12/20/2019 10:55 AM
 

If you see the box again, try tapping in it to see if you get a description of it, like you would on a valid ads-b return.

 

 

 

Also, there have been many reports of recent UFO activity in your area. Be careful. 

 
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12/20/2019 5:11 PM
 

GREG/brian:

I did tap it and found its speed of 00 knots and its direction to the north while it was tailing me to the east at the same altitude.

The box is the same size and shape as the one you get when you see an aircraft in the runup area and not moving.

I did not see a recurrence today.

John M

 
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