
SurfaceOps by uAvionix
Airport Vehicle Ops Safety
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What's New in SurfaceOps by uAvionix
1.5.2
September 25, 2026
See where vehicle transmitters go quiet, and cleaner traffic details. VMAT Transmit Map (new layer). Turn it on from the Map tab to see the FAA boundary that decides where an airport vehicle's ADS-B transmitter broadcasts: a solid magenta outline around the area where vehicles transmit, and dashed magenta outlines around the zones inside it where they stay silent. When a vehicle drops off the traffic display, this shows whether it simply drove out of the transmit area. Available at the airports where the FAA has published a transmit map. Ground vehicles no longer show aircraft details. Airport vehicles were picking up an aircraft type, tail number and route from their transponder code — an ops truck could appear as a Boeing 737. Vehicles now show only what is really known about them. Crash-phone alerts: removed the "Play audio" link, which could never work — the recording is not accessible to the app. Refreshed the in-app description and the D-ATIS data-source credit.
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