Ghost traffic that follows you

The target that follows you everywhere, at your altitude and a fraction of a mile away, is almost always your own aircraft.

Why it happens

If your aircraft has a transponder or ADS-B Out, ground stations track it and rebroadcast traffic, which can include your own aircraft. Stratux hears that and passes it to your EFB, which draws you as a nearby target. It's sometimes called a TIS-B "shadow."

The fix: tell Stratux your own aircraft's code

  1. In flight (or with a passenger operating the tablet), open 192.168.10.1 → Traffic.
  2. Find the target at your altitude about 0.1 nm away and note its ICAO hex code (six characters, such as A1B2C3).
  3. Or look up your aircraft's hex code in the FAA aircraft registry (it's listed as the "Mode S Code (Base 16 / Hex)").
  4. Open Settings in the web interface and enter the code in the ownship (Mode S code) field.

Stratux then leaves your own aircraft out of the traffic it sends to your EFB.

Traffic altitudes look wrong?

That's a related setting. If traffic altitudes look off in ForeFlight®, turn off the ownship setting in the Stratux web interface. See Using Stratux with ForeFlight®.

Why you see more traffic some days

The FAA's ground stations send TIS-B and ADS-R traffic to the area around aircraft that are broadcasting ADS-B Out. If no ADS-B Out aircraft are nearby, you may see less relayed traffic, even with good station coverage. Direct 1090 MHz traffic doesn't depend on this. The pilot's guide to ADS-B explains it in detail.