# Why missing flights on FlightAware.com

**URL:** <https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/why-missing-flights-on-flightaware-com/26915>\
**Category:** ADS-B Flight Tracking\
**Created:** [October 13, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/why-missing-flights-on-flightaware-com/26915 "2017-10-13T13:51:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/why-missing-flights-on-flightaware-com/26915/1 "2017-10-13T13:51:21Z")

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Newbie question. In the last couple of days I have got up and running with PiAware feeding to FlightAware. I see quite a few flights, particularly lower altitude near to me, on my Skyview map but these do not appear on the live tracking on [FlightAware.com](http://FlightAware.com). I was expecting to see these and it was one of the reasons why I decided to set up an ADS-B tracking station and join FlightAware to help coverage. Out of interest I checked over at Flightradar24 and some, but not all, of these flights were shown.  
Am I missing something?  
Thanks. Dave

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**Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/why-missing-flights-on-flightaware-com/26915/2 "2017-10-13T14:30:09Z")

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Do you have an example? (UTC time, hexid, screenshots helpful)

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**Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/why-missing-flights-on-flightaware-com/26915/3 "2017-10-13T16:44:21Z")

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Here is an example

 ![skyview](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/flightaware/original/1X/476d1243bf8a9e298038806a20f860c8c1f9bc15.png)

![data](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/flightaware/original/1X/654ad368f31080f5fe63fd234a0953c1bdd8c6e0.png)

 ![track](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/flightaware/original/1X/c1c25ce963d8dab540de54714b534a6ded9dc07f.png)

So maybe I just partially answered my own question. I see this example is called a “position-only flight”. I assume these are not displayed on FlightAware. Is this a setting I can change for my view of the main Live Flight Tracking page on the website?  
Thanks.

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**Author:** ![staughton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/staughton/32/112138_2.png) [@staughton](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/staughton)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 5:56pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/why-missing-flights-on-flightaware-com/26915/4 "2017-10-13T17:56:55Z")

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Here’s another example where I can see the flight on my receiver but it does not even appear as a position-only flight on FlightAware. FYI This one did appear on Flightradar24.

 ![example2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/flightaware/original/1X/9364411c5d2b638780dc4fdbfb5dca8f593c7c9b.png)

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**Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 6:11pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/why-missing-flights-on-flightaware-com/26915/5 "2017-10-13T18:11:37Z")

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> [@staughton](#):
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> Here’s another example where I can see the flight on my receiver but it does not even appear as a position-only flight on FlightAware

FlightAware is conservative about creating flights when the only datasource available is mlat positions; this is a case where we didn’t create one.

> [@staughton](#):
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> Is this a setting I can change for my view of the main Live Flight Tracking page on the website?

Not currently; vicinity maps don’t show position-only flights.

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**Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 7:50am UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/why-missing-flights-on-flightaware-com/26915/6 "2017-10-14T07:50:46Z")

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Thanks for the quick replies.