any idea what the 3 letter id's were? Al ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerard M Foley" <gfoley@columbus.rr.com> To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 10:53 AM Subject: As Big-City Debut Looms, New Air Traffic System Draws Fire > http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/08/politics/08RADA.html > > A week or so ago I was passing time looking at the 10 minute delayed display > of traffic to LaGuardia on > > http://www4.passur.com/lga.html > > I clicked on the symbol of an aircraft flying south along the Hudson River > around GW bridge. Its altitude was given as 1100 feet or so. As I watched > it meandered a little to the Jersey side and descended a little. Then its > type identification changed. I forget the detail, but it was initially > identified as something like E135, but abruptly changed to something like > D93. It continued south for a while, then turned east as if heading to JFK. > Now its ident changed again to some other aircraft type (I can't guess what > some of the three character identifications mean) and it flew on, passing > north of JFK still at moderate altitude. > > I wonder if STARS is subject to some of these peculiarities? > > Gerry > http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley > http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html > > The passur.com is also available as bos.htm, sfo.htm and lax.htm. > > G. >