VPR Tracking - legit or sinister?
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You're right. I need to find someone with a plane.
GrumpyCatFace wrote:Dumb slut partied too hard and woke up in a weird house. Ran out the door, weeping for her failed life choices, concerned townsfolk notes her appearance and alerted the fuzz.
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Okeefenokee wrote:You're right. I need to find someone with a plane.
Drones.
The FAA knows every aircraft in the sky and where it's been.
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I saw con-air. You can turn that doohickey tracking thing off.Speaker to Animals wrote:Okeefenokee wrote:You're right. I need to find someone with a plane.
Drones.
The FAA knows every aircraft in the sky and where it's been.
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Okeefenokee wrote:I saw con-air. You can turn that doohickey tracking thing off.Speaker to Animals wrote:Okeefenokee wrote:You're right. I need to find someone with a plane.
Drones.
The FAA knows every aircraft in the sky and where it's been.
Negative. You have to register your flight plan when you take off. They know exactly who you are in the air. Most civilian aircraft lack IFF transponders anyway.
Also, I doubt there is an off switch for those transponders on commercial airliners.
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I could probably launch a plane from the field across the street, though.
You remember that dude that flew his little plane into East Berlin, landed in the park, grabbed his family, and flew back out?
He didn't need no airport.
You remember that dude that flew his little plane into East Berlin, landed in the park, grabbed his family, and flew back out?
He didn't need no airport.
GrumpyCatFace wrote:Dumb slut partied too hard and woke up in a weird house. Ran out the door, weeping for her failed life choices, concerned townsfolk notes her appearance and alerted the fuzz.
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Okeefenokee wrote:I could probably launch a plane from the field across the street, though.
You remember that dude that flew his little plane into East Berlin, landed in the park, grabbed his family, and flew back out?
He didn't need no airport.
Then they will send the Air Force to escort you down.
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There's gotta be a minimum altitude. I guess someone might just pick up the phone and call it in if you buzzed their house, though.Speaker to Animals wrote:Okeefenokee wrote:I could probably launch a plane from the field across the street, though.
You remember that dude that flew his little plane into East Berlin, landed in the park, grabbed his family, and flew back out?
He didn't need no airport.
Then they will send the Air Force to escort you down.
GrumpyCatFace wrote:Dumb slut partied too hard and woke up in a weird house. Ran out the door, weeping for her failed life choices, concerned townsfolk notes her appearance and alerted the fuzz.
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Not for an aircraft. They track everything, dude.Okeefenokee wrote:There's gotta be a minimum altitude. I guess someone might just pick up the phone and call it in if you buzzed their house, though.Speaker to Animals wrote:Okeefenokee wrote:I could probably launch a plane from the field across the street, though.
You remember that dude that flew his little plane into East Berlin, landed in the park, grabbed his family, and flew back out?
He didn't need no airport.
Then they will send the Air Force to escort you down.
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Unless they are tracking all of vehicles on the road with the same radar they're using to track the airplanes, there has to be a minimum altitude.Speaker to Animals wrote:Not for an aircraft. They track everything, dude.Okeefenokee wrote:There's gotta be a minimum altitude. I guess someone might just pick up the phone and call it in if you buzzed their house, though.Speaker to Animals wrote:
Then they will send the Air Force to escort you down.
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Okeefenokee wrote:Unless they are tracking all of vehicles on the road with the same radar they're using to track the airplanes, there has to be a minimum altitude.Speaker to Animals wrote:Not for an aircraft. They track everything, dude.Okeefenokee wrote:
There's gotta be a minimum altitude. I guess someone might just pick up the phone and call it in if you buzzed their house, though.
Cars have no altitude. That's your minimum.
Drones are small enough that I doubt they get tracked at all outside of dense urban areas or places at risk of attack.
Anything really above structures and geography is potentially tracked. Anything as large as an airplane is certainly tracked.