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Warning about formation flight


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While flying today, we kept getting a warning flash up on SD.
It said something like “Warning formation flight up to 3000ft. Active now and for next 50 minutes”,
It pointed to a location about 3-5 miles ahead of our route. We changed direction a couple of times, but it popped up about 5 times, always a similar distance ahead, with the time reducing in real time.
We were above 3000ft so presumably no issue, bur there was nothing notamed in the area.
Is this an error of some sort?

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Thank you.
If there are several air displays by a formation flight on a day, would SD show their route between display areas as a warning?
Clutching at straws I know, but I scrupulously checked NOTAMS before the flight (as did the guy flying with me, using different software) and there were none in the area. As mentioned above, I've also checked the historic records on the NATS web site.
Given that I was connected to the internet when planning the flight, wouldn't all the NOTAMS on our route be shown shaded? There were no shaded areas in the areas that the warning message was pointing at.


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