Planes sometimes disappear

[Sagittarius2018 4]

Hi, I have the latest version of PSX and RealTraffic and I wanted to understand the reason for some bewildering behavior.

For example I see on FR24 that next to my airplane another is doing pushback, perfectly in line with what I see on MSFS. Suddenly, however, after the pushback the airplane sometimes disappears, although you keep seeing it on FR24, only to reappear as soon as the taxi starts. Why this anomaly?

Another example: sometimes the TCAS tells me a very close airplane, almost at the same altitude, but instead there is no airplane outside.

[kiek 1,229]

41 minutes ago, Sagittarius2018 said:

For example I see on FR24 that next to my airplane another is doing pushback, perfectly in line with what I see on MSFS. Suddenly, however, after the pushback the airplane sometimes disappears, although you keep seeing it on FR24, only to reappear as soon as the taxi starts. Why this anomaly?

It will have disappeared because there was no longer data about its position available in the RT traffic stream. A hick-up so to speak, maybe caused by a buidling blocking the signal. Do note that RT is not getting its data from FR24, so you should not compare these things.

Maybe if you look in the RT radar screen it was still visible there. That's becaus in that 2 dimensional world it is easier to let the aircrfat symbol stay for a while waiting for new data. In the sim I cannot wait long, because of possioble conflicts with other aircraft.

 

41 minutes ago, Sagittarius2018 said:

Another example: sometimes the TCAS tells me a very close airplane, almost at the same altitude, but instead there is no airplane outside.

That's an MSFS (-display) issue. The aircraft is really available in your sim otherwise TCAS would not go off.  

 

Edited April 26, 2022 by kiek

[Sagittarius2018 4]

3 hours ago, kiek said:

Do note that RT is not getting its data from FR24

I didn't know this. What is the source of RealTraffic data?

[kiek 1,229]

13 minutes ago, Sagittarius2018 said:

I didn't know this. What is the source of RealTraffic data?

Several sources.