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Pilots increasingly seem to have an iPad with some kind of apps. Do you have experience with this? In terms of redundant systems, seems kinda obvious that if yo

• lxgr 3y ago
  These apps usually use ADS-B as received by various community-operated receivers. This introduces a lag of several seconds, doesn't guarantee reception in tricky situations (such as planes flying very low, as during the final approach, or on the ground), and is limited to the planes' own position fix accuracy, which is orders of magnitude too coarse for this use case.
• icehawk 3y ago
  The coastguard aircraft involved only has a Mode S transponder and so those flight tracker websites can only determine the plane's position when there's enough receiver coverage to do multilateration
• rmccue 3y ago
  Aside from personal devices, which they definitely wouldn’t be using during takeoff and landing, tablets that pilots carry are Electronic Flight Bags (EFBs). These run specialised software, not something like Flightradar24. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_flight_bag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_flight_bag