diff --git a/dump1090.c b/dump1090.c
index 9334581..2506e8c 100644
--- a/dump1090.c
+++ b/dump1090.c
@@ -310,11 +310,9 @@ void showHelp(void) {
 "--lon <longitude>        Reference/receiver longitude for surface posn (opt)\n"
 "--max-range <distance>   Absolute maximum range for position decoding (in nm, default: 300)\n"
 "--fix                    Enable single-bits error correction using CRC\n"
-"--no-fix                 Disable single-bits error correction using CRC\n"
+"                         (specify twice for two-bit error correction)\n"
+"--no-fix                 Disable error correction using CRC\n"
 "--no-crc-check           Disable messages with broken CRC (discouraged)\n"
-#ifdef ALLOW_AGGRESSIVE
-"--aggressive             More CPU for more messages (two bits fixes, ...)\n"
-#endif
 "--mlat                   display raw messages in Beast ascii mode\n"
 "--stats                  With --ifile print stats at exit. No other output\n"
 "--stats-range            Collect/show range histogram\n"
@@ -483,7 +481,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
         } else if (!strcmp(argv[j],"--measure-noise")) {
             // Ignored
         } else if (!strcmp(argv[j],"--fix")) {
-            Modes.nfix_crc = 1;
+            ++Modes.nfix_crc;
         } else if (!strcmp(argv[j],"--no-fix")) {
             Modes.nfix_crc = 0;
         } else if (!strcmp(argv[j],"--no-crc-check")) {
@@ -547,11 +545,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
         } else if (!strcmp(argv[j],"--hae") || !strcmp(argv[j],"--gnss")) {
             Modes.use_gnss = 1;
         } else if (!strcmp(argv[j],"--aggressive")) {
-#ifdef ALLOW_AGGRESSIVE
-            Modes.nfix_crc = MODES_MAX_BITERRORS;
-#else
-            fprintf(stderr, "warning: --aggressive not supported in this build, option ignored.\n");
-#endif
+            fprintf(stderr, "warning: --aggressive not supported in this build, option ignored (consider '--fix --fix' instead)\n");
         } else if (!strcmp(argv[j],"--interactive")) {
             Modes.interactive = 1;
         } else if (!strcmp(argv[j],"--interactive-ttl") && more) {
@@ -627,6 +621,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
     if (!Modes.quiet) {showCopyright();}
 #endif
 
+    if (Modes.nfix_crc > MODES_MAX_BITERRORS)
+        Modes.nfix_crc = MODES_MAX_BITERRORS;
+
     // Initialization
     log_with_timestamp("%s %s starting up.", MODES_DUMP1090_VARIANT, MODES_DUMP1090_VERSION);
     modesInit();
diff --git a/view1090.c b/view1090.c
index 590d904..f1522a9 100644
--- a/view1090.c
+++ b/view1090.c
@@ -120,9 +120,9 @@ void showHelp(void) {
   "--lon <longitude>        Reference/receiver longitude for surface posn (opt)\n"
   "--max-range <distance>   Absolute maximum range for position decoding (in nm, default: 300)\n"
   "--no-crc-check           Disable messages with broken CRC (discouraged)\n"
-  "--no-fix                 Disable single-bits error correction using CRC\n"
   "--fix                    Enable single-bits error correction using CRC\n"
-  "--aggressive             More CPU for more messages (two bits fixes, ...)\n"
+  "                         (specify twice for two-bit error correction)\n"
+  "--no-fix                 Disable error correction using CRC\n"
   "--metric                 Use metric units (meters, km/h, ...)\n"
   "--show-only <addr>       Show only messages from the given ICAO on stdout\n"
   "--help                   Show this help\n",
@@ -171,11 +171,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
         } else if (!strcmp(argv[j],"--no-crc-check")) {
             Modes.check_crc = 0;
         } else if (!strcmp(argv[j],"--fix")) {
-            Modes.nfix_crc = 1;
+            ++Modes.nfix_crc;
         } else if (!strcmp(argv[j],"--no-fix")) {
             Modes.nfix_crc = 0;
-        } else if (!strcmp(argv[j],"--aggressive")) {
-            Modes.nfix_crc = MODES_MAX_BITERRORS;
         } else if (!strcmp(argv[j],"--max-range") && more) {
             Modes.maxRange = atof(argv[++j]) * 1852.0; // convert to metres
         } else if (!strcmp(argv[j],"--help")) {
@@ -194,6 +192,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
 #define MSG_DONTWAIT 0
 #endif
 
+    if (Modes.nfix_crc > MODES_MAX_BITERRORS)
+        Modes.nfix_crc = MODES_MAX_BITERRORS;
+
     // Initialization
     view1090Init();
     modesInitNet();