tony roberts wrote:

I had to read that twice to make sure you were serious. Hitting the ident
doesn't delete anything, it just enhances the target of the identing
aircraft.


When I toured the Kelowna Control Tour, they told us that they don't
like aircraft Identing unless requested. They then asked an aircraft to
ident so we could see what happened.

As I recall it, the identing aircraft was highlighted and for a brief
moment the other aircraft were not visible.

Now you have got me wondering - I'll go there again this week and check.

You can go for another tour if you want but no way, no how does one
pilot identing erase all other airplanes for any amount of time. Ever.
On any kind of ATC radar system. Period.