VFR Flight Following -- What's going on here?

Ben Hallert wrote:
How? If they have to rely on primary radar alone, then how could they
reasonably be sure they were watching the plane they thought they were?

By watching the blip. I've flown into Dulles with only a receiver
and primary radar return (turns for identification and to indicate
our intents). I've also departed Dulles with comms but with no
transponder while the primary radar is out. ATC can be resourceful
when they have to be.

Ben Hallert wrote:
How? If they have to rely on primary radar alone, then how could they
reasonably be sure they were watching the plane they thought they were?

Ron Natalie wrote:
By watching the blip. I've flown into Dulles with only a receiver
and primary radar return (turns for identification and to indicate
our intents). I've also departed Dulles with comms but with no
transponder while the primary radar is out. ATC can be resourceful
when they have to be.

Not in the last year, was it! :-))
I thought the Governor of KY was the last to receive that service.

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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Ben Hallert wrote:
How? If they have to rely on primary radar alone, then how could they
reasonably be sure they were watching the plane they thought they were?

By watching the blip.

???

I've flown into Dulles with only a receiver
and primary radar return (turns for identification and to indicate
our intents). I've also departed Dulles with comms but with no
transponder while the primary radar is out. ATC can be resourceful
when they have to be.

Performing FF for a transponsderless aircraft on the Atlantic seaboard seems
to be towards the bottom of their priorities (capacities??).


Matt -- never has flown east of Nashville.
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

Matt Barrow wrote:


Performing FF for a transponsderless aircraft on the Atlantic seaboard seems
to be towards the bottom of their priorities (capacities??).


Perhaps. We weren't getting FF but in and out of the class B.