What qualifies as a “flight” to flightaware?
I’m currently watching one of my ADS-B equipped aircraft playing around in the practice area north of KPSC. I’ve watched it do this several times. When it lands, it doesn’t show up in FA’s history for the aircraft.
I assume there’s some sort of criteria it’s missing for it to be logged as a “flight”.
It’s never getting more than 15 miles from home. It’s almost certainly staying under 4000 feet through it’s entire trip, and it’s landing at the same airport (it’s a trainer, owned by a nearby flight training center).
I doubt they’re requesting flight following or anything, and they’re playing VFR most of the time.
There’s been about five flights since 23NOV and I haven’t seen any of them logged on the aircraft’s status page. EDIT: I do see the aircraft showing on my PiAware’s page, just not in FA’s flight history for the aircraft.
Simply put, what qualifies as a “flight” to FA?