Accident report on the midair at Tenino

But Dan said he's Slant X-ray. Is it possible (or worth it) to get FF
without a transponder?


I haven't tried. However, by verifying the type and altitude of a primary
echo, it might be of use to controllers who are not too busy with other (IFR
for example) traffic. It's just as useful to be called out as traffic as it is
to have traffic called out. And you may still get good radar services if their
screen's not too cluttered.

Newps? Ron?

Jose

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I haven't tried. However, by verifying the type and altitude of a primary
echo, it might be of use to controllers who are not too busy with other (IFR
for example) traffic.

My house is under D airspace. Last summer I wanted to fly up the bay
to my dock, for the delectation of my granddaughters. So I flew
overhead at 2900 feet and asked the tower for permission to descend
through pattern altitude to 500 feet for a tour of the bay. Long
silence. Then: where was I? "Over Adams' Point and circling." Long
silence. Finally I got permission to descend, but I had a big
suspicion that the radar had never picked me up.

To compound things, once I was at 500 feet he could no longer hear me.
So I exited his airspace by flying at 500 feet up the bay, thanking
him profusely as I departed.


all the best -- Dan Ford
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