Agreed, the service is there to save pilots and passenger
lives.


"T o d d P a t t i s t" wrote
in message
news | "Jim Macklin"
wrote:
|
| Having a transponder squawking 1200 does very little
toward
| S&R.
|
| Jim, was this in response to me? If so, you misunderstood
| me. My comment about the lack of a transponder is that
it's
| hard to get flight following without one - not that having
| one and squawking 1200 is some kind of substitute for FF.
| Because FF is often not available when you are /X, one
| should be familiar with and use the other tools, like
flight
| plans, position reports, special hazardous area reporting
| services, etc. that are available with only a radio.
|
| --
| Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden
meeting of stone and metal.
|
| - Ernest K. Gann, 'Fate is the Hunter.'