Why does Skyview display plane icons of random sizes for similar flight profiles?

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.

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