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Old September 19th 06, 08:27 PM posted to rec.aviation.ifr
Mitty
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Default Flight Plan Equiment Codes?

Thanks. I was reading the chart wrong. when I saw:

/A Transponder with Mode C
TACAN ONLY

I thought the TACAN ONLY line went with the /A. Now it is obvious that line is
the title for the next subsection.

On 9/19/2006 10:21 AM, Steven P. McNicoll wrote the following:
"Mitty" wrote in message
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A friend just asked me what code to file with his KNS-80 RNAV. I told him
that I thought it was /I but that I usually filed /A with a KNS-80 because
I didn't want ATC to surprise me with an RNAV approach or some kind of
weird RNAV routing. (I don't use a KNS-80 often enough to be really
comfortable with it.)

Then we found:

http://www.faa.gov/NTAP/NTAP06AUG31/gen05003.htm

Which is a new chart "Effective September 1, 2005" and it looks like good
old slant alpha is gone and I should now be filing slant uniform in a
vanilla airplane w. just mode c and dme. Is that right? Did the codes
change while I wasn't looking?


/A is still there, it still means transponder with Mode C and DME. Check
the chart at the bottom of the page, sixth suffix code from the top. /I
would be the proper code for transponder with Mode C and VOR/DME RNAV.