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8/24/2022 11:04 AM
 

Lately, I've experienced several caes where my filed flight plan (IFR) is not being properly loaded to Leidos which cases them not to show up on my Dashboard. Flight service states that the plans are there, but if they are not properly loaded from iFly, they may not show up on the dashboard. Has something changed in the way our submissions are entered to Leidos?

 
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9/16/2022 5:37 PM
 

Oo! Jeff, I'm glad you posted this. Because I've tried several times to see my flight plan in a weather app, "MyRadar Pro" and have written to the developer to ask if the flight planned route weather feature really works. Never got a response--but now I suspect that my experience has been like yours. Flight Service gets the plan, but somehow it doesn't show up Dashboard. Actually, I haven't LOOKED at the dashboard, but everything else seems exactly like what you've noted.

If I get ambitious, maybe I'll flle through 1-800-WX BRIEF and see what happens in MyRadar.

 
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9/18/2022 9:42 PM
 

I think I guessed wrong about my experience with flight plans in MyRadar. Today I tried filing a flight plan through 1-800-wx-brief, which checks thoroughly to be sure a flight plan is complete and correct before accepting it.  My plan was accepted, so I'm pretty sure it was good. But MyRadar couldn't find it. So I tried a few other online sources to see if it was really there.  One of them came back with "The Tail Number - N123XM - is blocked from public viewing."

And that's when I remembered that after ADS-B was mandated the FAA developed a form that would prevent the general public from viewing ADS-B data if the aircraft owner requested. I made the request, and since then FlightAware and the other flight tracking apps can't find and track my N-number. So now I think that explains my invisible flight plans. It was my own fault.

And that probably means iFly isn't implicated at all.

That doesn't mean iFly doesn't have a problem, of course. It's just no evidence at all, neither positive, nor negative.

(What surprised me now is that it's the N-number that's blocked. I'd been thinking it was simply the ADS-B data. And now I'm re-thinking my request that the FAA not publish my location. Originally I was concerned because I do a lot of water ops--meaning my plane is often close to people who know how to find its N-number online. I try always to keep the legal distance; but "500 feet" is is hard to pin down, and I didn't want to have to defend my legal flying. But now I may change my mind.)

 
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