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Old October 18th 13, 04:59 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Ramy
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Default Butterfly display (displaying a big red logo under normal flight conditions)

On Thursday, October 17, 2013 5:15:14 PM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
My "own transponder" functionality works just fine and I never get a self

alert.



I'm not sure what it's doing early in the flight - pressing the right switch

to the left, it shows a transponder code of 4707 (IIRC) and, shortly later,

it shows 1202, my squawk. It's fine after that.



"Andy" wrote in message

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On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 8:34:06 PM UTC-7, Ramy wrote:



"After the early PCAS issues were resolved"



PCAS issues are still not resolved if you fly with a transponder. The fix

for continous "own ship" alerting appears to have been to inhibit reporting

of co-altitude targets. My portable still does not perform the function it

was purchased for (traffic awareness and collision warning for my airplane).



I hope the "other issues" the FLARM team are working on include making PCAS

work. That functionality is long overdue.





Andy


I used to notice the same with my MRX. When you fly close to another aircraft it will throw off both the squawk code and altitude for a while, until it eventually correct itself, or if you recycle the power. The same (for altitude) does not happen with PF PCAS.

Ramy