Skyview Aircraft symbols

[biekerc]

@Runway2406

I realise that the different colours refer to the height of the aircraft but what decides the actual aircraft symbol generated on the screen? Is it just random?

It is definitely not random.

@obj

Aircraft type is not transmitted as part of ADS-B.

When Skyview knows the aircraft type for an aircraft from its static database, it’ll try to pick a suitable icon.

When Skyview doesn’t know the aircraft type, it picks an icon based on the ADS-B “emitter category” which has very vague categories so it may not get it right.