[DATA] SKW9799 is 'special'

[dirkhh]

Url of request https://api.adsbdb.com/v0/callsign/SKW9799

Why was the data wrong this callsign is 'special'. SkyWest appears to use it for test flights and when shuttling aircrafts. Right now, as I type it, it's a plane transfer flight from Palm Springs to Seattle, yesterday they used it to move a plane from Spokane to Portland.

Additional context This isn't a flight with a 'regular' route at all - so giving one of the past values for it might not be the right thing to do.

[dirkhh]

instead of opening another issue, it seems that SWA999 is of a similar special type. Also seems to designate ferrying a plane. Every day the route is different.

[mrjackwills]

Not sure what the best thing to do is;

1) remove it. 2) have some kind of key to denote that it's not a static route? 3) update the data every week. 4) do nothing.

Not sure what my preference is, probably 1 or 4

[dirkhh]

I think it would be nice to have a way to add a flag that says "this flight doesn't have a predictable route". That could then apply to all the Net Jets, to these special airline codes, etc. (I know, that was not one of your two preferred solutions...)

[mrjackwills]

Would mean adding a key to every flightroute/callsign response, which if we introduced, I think I would use a boolean - fixed or static, not sure, as in fixed: true means that this is a predicable route.

Don't know if this is a good approach to the issue though