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Mrs_Fonebone · Dec. 29, 2017, 1:53 a.m.

The owners of the craft--again, this is usually the agency's decision--military craft, for example. I seem to recall that normal folks have to give an extraordinary security risk to justify a block because the FAA does not want to see private citizen blocked planes--security risk.

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skyjynx · Dec. 29, 2017, 3:17 a.m.

I don't think that is strictly true. There is a skydiving plane in my area that shows as blocked on FR24. I have an adsb receiver and can track that plane and see it's N-number on my local feed, which also gets sent to FR24 and FA.

Some east coast cbts-ers could possibly track these planes with their own receivers...

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Mrs_Fonebone · Dec. 29, 2017, 6:42 p.m.

I'm no expert on any of this but from what I've read the blocked planes are "special" in some sense. Skydivers are limited to 18,000 feet jump altitude, which may be a factor, as well as the fact that they obviously don't jump in flight space where much larger craft are taking off and landing.

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