"Mark T. Dame" wrote in message
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My argument for reading it back would be that it lets the controller know
that the correct aircraft is responding. Imagine two planes talking to
the same controller: 2948Q (my club's Archer) and 6468Q (one of the 152's
that I flew for my primary training) (based at the same field, so very
likely to be flying at the same time). The controller calls to me in the
Archer to squawk 1234: "48Q squawk 1234 and ident".

Improper use of abbreviated callsign. Should be "Archer 48Q" or "Piper
48Q".



My four year old is asking "what's that for" (referring to who knows
what), so I'm distracted and miss the call. Meanwhile, the student pilot
leaving for his long cross country had requested flight following, so he's
expecting a squawk code. He squawks 1234 and idents. No one read back
the request, but now the controller sees 1234 light up on his radar and
thinks it's me.


Nobody even acknowledged it. So the controller will probably repeat the
transmission before the code gets dialed in.