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Surface Vessels on TCAS?

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Anyone seeing this? I was on final for YSSY 16R, They look like boats?!

Jim Driscoll, MSI Raider GE76 12UHS-607 17.3" Gaming Laptop Computer - Blue Intel Core i9 12th Gen 12900HK 1.8GHz Processor; NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 16GB GDDR6; 64GB DDR5-4800 RAM; Dual M2 2TB Solid State Drives.Driving a Sony KD-50X75, and KDL-48R470B @ 4k 3724x2094,MSFS 2020, 30 FPS on Ultra Settings.

Jorg/Asobo: “Weather is a core part of our simulator, and we will strive to make it as accurate as possible.”Also Jorg/Asobo: “We are going to limit the weather API to rain intensity only.”


 

Ya I pick up the airport vehicle traffic and stuff as well.They're simobjects like anything else so I don't know how you could inhibit their indications without turning TA off.

Patrick Houghton

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I don't recall this happening before.

Jim Driscoll, MSI Raider GE76 12UHS-607 17.3" Gaming Laptop Computer - Blue Intel Core i9 12th Gen 12900HK 1.8GHz Processor; NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 16GB GDDR6; 64GB DDR5-4800 RAM; Dual M2 2TB Solid State Drives.Driving a Sony KD-50X75, and KDL-48R470B @ 4k 3724x2094,MSFS 2020, 30 FPS on Ultra Settings.

Jorg/Asobo: “Weather is a core part of our simulator, and we will strive to make it as accurate as possible.”Also Jorg/Asobo: “We are going to limit the weather API to rain intensity only.”


 

I have flown into lots of places that had boats on the water. They never showed up on TCAS. Very Strange.

Paul Deemer

I have flown into lots of places that had boats on the water. They never showed up on TCAS. Very Strange.
All U.S. Navy ships are equipped with transponders which operate in the same frequency range, and using the same code format as aircraft transponders - with the exception that the shipboard units do not transmit any altitude data. I believe that naval SOP is to insure that the transponders are switched off when a vessel is at anchor in port, but they are normally turned on whenever a ship is moving. There are many recorded instances of naval shipboard transponders showing up as false targets on aircraft TCAS displays. Especially near airports located in places with a large concentration of navy vessels, like San Diego and San Francisco.Other than that, civilian ships should not show up on TCAS. There is another type of maritime "transponder" system carried by many mid to large sized merchant ships, but that system is completely different than what is used in aviation.

Jim Barrett

Licensed Airframe & Powerplant Mechanic, Avionics, Electrical & Air Data Systems Specialist. Qualified on: Falcon 900, CRJ-200, Dornier 328-100, Hawker 850XP and 1000, Lear 35, 45, 55 and 60, Gulfstream IV and 550, Embraer 135, Beech Premiere and 400A, MD-80.

I wonder if this quote from the PMDG introduction may explain why not everyone is "seeing boats":"Other Traffic (TCAS): This toggle allows you to choose whetherTCAS only shows you proximate traffic (realistic) or shows you alltraffic in your vicinity"Maybe setting realistic could solve your problem.

Regards

Nixon Thomas

Jason: I thought military variants are yet to come? :)

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I have other traffic on filter.

Jim Driscoll, MSI Raider GE76 12UHS-607 17.3" Gaming Laptop Computer - Blue Intel Core i9 12th Gen 12900HK 1.8GHz Processor; NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 16GB GDDR6; 64GB DDR5-4800 RAM; Dual M2 2TB Solid State Drives.Driving a Sony KD-50X75, and KDL-48R470B @ 4k 3724x2094,MSFS 2020, 30 FPS on Ultra Settings.

Jorg/Asobo: “Weather is a core part of our simulator, and we will strive to make it as accurate as possible.”Also Jorg/Asobo: “We are going to limit the weather API to rain intensity only.”


 

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