Losing MLAT Aircraft

[wiedehopf]

There are more than enough receivers for MLAT of aircraft higher up, especially in areas with many feeders.
A post about when you actually get MLAT positions:

Not many MLAT for me

The tl;dr is: If your receiver provided a copy of a message that was used to produce a multilaterated position for an aircraft then: a) that one position will count in your site stats as a mlat position; b) your piaware will receive all multilaterated positions for that aircraft for the next 3 minutes For your receiver to be used, there are a lot of factors in play (e.g. happening to hear the right message, having synchronization with other receivers hearing the same message, rate limiting i…

Basically with many receivers around you can’t expect to get full MLAT tracking.
Which is really a shame -.-