Without cheating the staff wouldn’t need to do anything. So the root cause is the fake feeder. But it need to be stopped by the site owner, or at least make it useless if the sender continues to cheat
And it seem to be a returning issue from some years ago:
The lack of action by the FlightAware Staff is sad. If they do not care about quality data, why should any of us? Maybe we should all corrupt our settings to boost the “Other” reports. Sad state of affairs. Maybe the owners of FlightAware have directed the system should operate this way. I used to care about providing accurate reliable data. Seems like FlightAware does not care at all. FlightAware can and should do better.
The time has come. We will be addressing this issue in the April ADS-B newsletter next week and deploy an update to the Leaderboard shortly after.
Thank you Eric, looking forward to it.