436 karma · joined January 13, 2014
None of their services are free. You just pay for them in other ways, even if you don’t realize it.
This is the doubled edged nature of prosecutorial discretion.
Reminds me a bit muckrock.com as well.
Is there a way I can opt out, short of deleting my account?
If not, does that mean that maybe NASA is using them outside of their designed spec?
(See also: https://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayDir.cfm?Internal_ID=N_PR...)
The people who sign up to help (such as myself) want to help. Honestly, my frustration is that I don’t get asked enough.
I have my work account as a member of the family group, and that seems to work well.
FR24 is a combination of ground-based radar (both primary and secondary surveillance) and ADS-B data.
TCAS (as I understand it) uses the transponder part of secondary surveillance radar, but with out the bearing/ranging info, as well as ADS-B (if equipped).
I’m incredibly surprised that anyone would allow an unlimited/open-ended financial risk like that.