I flew EGLL to VHHH last night and at both airports, aircraft appeared 'doubled' as if the programme was spawning two aircraft for the same flight. Take a look...

https://imgur.com/8KObPWx

https://imgur.com/Xd5a4r3

Any idea why this is suddenly happening?
 

5 hours ago, BWBriscoe said:

I flew EGLL to VHHH last night and at both airports, aircraft appeared 'doubled' as if the programme was spawning two aircraft for the same flight. Take a look...

https://imgur.com/8KObPWx

https://imgur.com/Xd5a4r3

Any idea why this is suddenly happening?
 

Yes, that's a known problem. It appeared a few months ago when RT added two new data providers. One of them does not provide the airframe number in their traffic data, so it is more difficult to check for doubles other than by regcode or callsign, if at all available.

We call that "ghosting". PSXT is able to detect these ghosts and to fix it, but not  at 100 procent. In the next version it might do a better job.

Luckily it does not happen that much and it is airport dependent.

14 hours ago, kiek said:

Yes, that's a known problem. It appeared a few months ago when RT added two new data providers. One of them does not provide the airframe number in their traffic data, so it is more difficult to check for doubles other than by regcode or callsign, if at all available.

We call that "ghosting". PSXT is able to detect these ghosts and to fix it, but not  at 100 procent. In the next version it might do a better job.

Luckily it does not happen that much and it is airport dependent.

On my last flight it happened quite a bit. These were just two examples but I saw at least six aircracft like this...