Target traffic altitude inc, arrow dec

[swatson999]

An interesting traffic target showed up today...opposite direction traffic a ways out, showing on the map. All fine, except that the *altitude* was showing as +X, and the arrow indicating a trend in altitude was displaying *down*, DESPITE the fact that the altitude above mine was *increasing*, steadily, from +17 or so up to +30 and continuing...

So the target was *climbing*, but the trend arrow was showing a *descent*.

It was also being displayed twice, one practically on top of the other.

I got a screen shot, don't have it here, but can provide it.

 

[Dynon]

Can you send that to us at support at dynonavionics dot com and also provide a link to this thread?

 

[swatson999]

Roger that!

 

[dynonsupport]

As a note here, the data about climb/level/descent is sent to us, not something we calculate. Chances are very good we'll see that the sent data did, in fact tell us to display exactly that, and then the only solution is to track down the aircraft that did it and try and debug their system.

 

[swatson999]

OK, I take back what I say...it was *below* us and descending, but the multiple targets (that is, the same target doubled-up) plus some other clutter caused us to think it was "+" not a "-".

That said...I've been getting more traffic alerts for myself lately, and some repeated targets like this...more than I recall in the past.

I suppose this is purely a problem on the FAA side of things, though...