Beeping Thing

I can't figure out what this beeping thing was that I encountered the other
day while flying a 172 from our club. I'm a fresh private and I took my
parents to Mansfield airport for Sunday morning breakfast. When we left on
runway 14 This beeping thing came on. I think it's a DME. I've seen one in
use before, but I couldn't figure it out and it scared my mother half to
death, (She thought it was a sound that meant the engine was about to die).
How do I turn it off? This plane is equipped with the standard NAV/COM, it
has an ADF and Garmin GPS with moving map. I tried Flipping all kinds of
switches to turn it off and I couldn't figure it out. I knew it was a marker
of sorts, so I knew it would go away, I just hoped it would go away fast to
ease everyone anxiety. Any tips on how to turn it off?



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Slick,

You should be able to find your specifics in the POH for the airplane. If
it's the marker beacon that you're hearing, depending on the audio panel in
the airplane, there is probably a mute button for it, or you could
"deselect" the MKR button.

- Steve

"Slick" wrote in message ...
I can't figure out what this beeping thing was that I encountered the
other
day while flying a 172 from our club. I'm a fresh private and I took my
parents to Mansfield airport for Sunday morning breakfast. When we left on
runway 14 This beeping thing came on. I think it's a DME. I've seen one in
use before, but I couldn't figure it out and it scared my mother half to
death, (She thought it was a sound that meant the engine was about to
die).
How do I turn it off? This plane is equipped with the standard NAV/COM, it
has an ADF and Garmin GPS with moving map. I tried Flipping all kinds of
switches to turn it off and I couldn't figure it out. I knew it was a
marker
of sorts, so I knew it would go away, I just hoped it would go away fast
to
ease everyone anxiety. Any tips on how to turn it off?



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Marker beacon, used for instrument approaches. Usually at the top of the
radio stack, may be incorporated into the audio panel. Look for blue, orange
and white lights. Should be a volume knob/power switch to turn it down/off
if it is a seperate unit. If it's a part of the audio panel, you will have
to find the appropriate switch (do it while on the ground, before you start
up) to turn the audio off. Either way, it's nothing to worry about.
BTW, are you talking about MFD?

"Slick" wrote in message ...
I can't figure out what this beeping thing was that I encountered the
other
day while flying a 172 from our club. I'm a fresh private and I took my
parents to Mansfield airport for Sunday morning breakfast. When we left on
runway 14 This beeping thing came on. I think it's a DME. I've seen one in
use before, but I couldn't figure it out and it scared my mother half to
death, (She thought it was a sound that meant the engine was about to
die).
How do I turn it off? This plane is equipped with the standard NAV/COM, it
has an ADF and Garmin GPS with moving map. I tried Flipping all kinds of
switches to turn it off and I couldn't figure it out. I knew it was a
marker
of sorts, so I knew it would go away, I just hoped it would go away fast
to
ease everyone anxiety. Any tips on how to turn it off?



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Does your field have an ILS approach for instrument landings? If so its
probably the marker beacons. They can sound like a really nasty alarm
going off when you fly over them. Either you have "marker" turned on on
your audio panel or you are flying a typically rental 172 and the
radios don't do exactely as they are told. We have a Cherokee I teach
in that requires you to dial 1 MHz more than the freq (KX-170B). So for
118.32 you have to dial 119.32. I'd never allow such things in my
Mooney but you have to break even in the renal market.

-Robert, CFI

If (s)he's refering to K1B9, Mansfield, Mass., then it does not have an
ILS. Don't know when the beeping was heard, but there are other airports in
the area that do have ILS approaches.

- Steve

"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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Does your field have an ILS approach for instrument landings? If so its
probably the marker beacons. They can sound like a really nasty alarm

I see that the Mansfield airport in Ohio (KMFD) does have an ILS 32
approach.

- Steve


"Stephen McNaught" wrote in message
...
If (s)he's refering to K1B9, Mansfield, Mass., then it does not have an
ILS. Don't know when the beeping was heard, but there are other airports
in
the area that do have ILS approaches.

- Steve

"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
oups.com...
Does your field have an ILS approach for instrument landings? If so its
probably the marker beacons. They can sound like a really nasty alarm

Stephen McNaught wrote:

If (s)he's refering to K1B9, Mansfield, Mass., then it does not have an
ILS. Don't know when the beeping was heard, but there are other airports in
the area that do have ILS approaches.

There is no such identifier as K1B9. The Mansfield, Mass airport is 1B9. ICAO
identifiers do not have numbers in them.

Robert M. Gary wrote:
but you have to break even in the renal market.

-Robert, CFI

If I'm going sell my kidneys I'd better do a whole lot better than just
break even.

a.

wrote in message
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Robert M. Gary wrote:
but you have to break even in the renal market.

-Robert, CFI

If I'm going sell my kidneys I'd better do a whole lot better than just
break even.

a.


HHAAaaa HHaaaaaa!

radios don't do exactely as they are told. We have a Cherokee I teach
in that requires you to dial 1 MHz more than the freq (KX-170B). So for
118.32 you have to dial 119.32. I'd never allow such things in my
Mooney but you have to break even in the renal market.

-Robert, CFI

Write it up.. and don't use the airplane?? maybe when the "owner" realizes
he's loosing revenue for a bad radio.. he'll get it fixed... I would never
take an airplane IFR like that.. I hope the bad one is "radio #2".. We had a
repeat problem like that with a radio here in the Arrow.. After I refused to
take the rental for IFR refresher.. because you could not tell what
frequency you were on.. the FBO swapped out the radio. Had the same problem
with "LEDs" failing.. cant tell Freq or read the DME.. can't fly one IFR
approach around here without DME.. so I refused the rental... He put in an
KNS80.

BT