Connect API: Can I determine if an aircraft has a specific capability?

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Hi …

Using the Connect API, is there a way to determine if an aircraft has a specific capability? For instance, if I connect to IF and IF has a flight live with a specific aircraft such as an A321 or Cessna 172, can I then query a state to determine if it has a capability such as APPR?

Taking APPR as a use case, even on aircraft that don’t support this I see that the manifest includes the states related to APPR such as aircraft/0/systems/autopilot/approach/on – so that clearly doesn’t help distinguish if the aircraft has the capability given these states are in the manifest.

Can anyone point me to the right state to query in a situation like this (using, say, APPR as the example capability)?

Thanks.

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There’s no way to figure this out from the API. Same for states like reverse thrust.

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@tomthetank Thanks for the quick answer. That’s unfortunate.