# HBAL170 Tracking **URL:** \ **Category:** ADS-B Flight Tracking\ **Created:** [August 20, 2017, 12:06pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/hbal170-tracking/24957 "2017-08-20T12:06:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![usafpride](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/usafpride/32/131725_2.png) [@usafpride](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/usafpride)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 12:06pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/hbal170-tracking/24957/1 "2017-08-20T12:06:40Z")
So I tracked this for over 9 hours last night. It showed as I was feeding this to FA, but when you look at the “position only” information, none of my tracking information shows. Why is this? [https://flightaware.com/live/flight/HBAL170/history/20170810/1628Z/tracklog](https://flightaware.com/live/flight/HBAL170/history/20170810/1628Z/tracklog) ---
**Author:** ![ericcarlson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/ericcarlson/32/116578_2.png) [@ericcarlson](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/ericcarlson)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/hbal170-tracking/24957/2 "2017-08-21T13:59:15Z")
This question comes up from time to time. Balloons are typically filtered out on [flightaware.com](http://flightaware.com) because they exhibit unusual characteristics (primarily they tend to move really slowly). Our flight tracking engine has complex rules for determining what is and is not considered a trackable “flight” to make sense of all received data from all of our many data sources, including Mode S/ADS-B. (As you note, make sure you have “position-only” tracking enable in your [FlightAware.com](http://FlightAware.com) account since these flights are typically not on a schedule or flight plan.) We are continuing to make additional improvements to enable better tracking of position-only flights and have significantly increased the amount of position-only flights on the web site in the last year. The one you linked to is unusual in that it was tracked continuously for about 10 days. ---
**Author:** ![usafpride](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/usafpride/32/131725_2.png) [@usafpride](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/usafpride)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 12:47am UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/hbal170-tracking/24957/3 "2017-08-24T00:47:51Z")
Thanks for the information. The entire flight shows now. I’m curious how google retrieve’s their equipment ---
**Author:** ![mattbna](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/mattbna/32/125311_2.png) [@mattbna](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/mattbna)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/hbal170-tracking/24957/4 "2017-08-24T19:48:37Z")
They have information about that on their Project Loon site, @usafpride… Scroll to the bottom of this page: [https://x.company/loon/technology/](https://x.company/loon/technology/) – ---
**Author:** ![wingnut](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/wingnut/32/73634_2.png) [@wingnut](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/wingnut)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 10:09pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/hbal170-tracking/24957/5 "2017-08-25T22:09:54Z")
I have been tracking HBAL 185 all day @ 60K ft. currently near tazwell , VA ---
**Author:** ![WN8QGV](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/wn8qgv/32/4171_2.png) [@WN8QGV](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/WN8QGV)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 1:17pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/hbal170-tracking/24957/6 "2017-08-27T13:17:46Z")
I tracked the same balloon on August 19 as it crossed Michigan right around 60K occasionally dipping down to 57K. I had to do a lot of internet digging as I am new to all of this but did find the project loon site as well as finding out as near as I could tell that it was launched on August 10. ---
**Author:** ![khackee1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/khackee1/32/63228_2.png) [@khackee1](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/khackee1)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 9:15am UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/hbal170-tracking/24957/7 "2017-09-08T09:15:28Z")
Me too, HBAL185 was the first Project Loon balloon tracked here at Smith Mountain Lake I’ve seen since I started.