Transponder code switching

Teacherjh,

AIM is not gospel, and although it represents distilled (good) judgement, it
should not =replace= judgement.


Of course not. But there was no judgement in your post.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

But there was no judgement in your post.

Sure there was. I made the judgement that it was better for me to briefly not
reply to a ping than to reply inappropriately as I was switching numbers.

Jose

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Teacherjh wrote:

But there was no judgement in your post.


Sure there was. I made the judgement that it was better for me to briefly not
reply to a ping than to reply inappropriately as I was switching numbers.

It takes at least two sweeps and sometimes as many as 5 sweeps before
the radar will tag you up on a code you're squawking.

Newps writes:

It takes at least two sweeps and sometimes as many as 5 sweeps before
the radar will tag you up on a code you're squawking.

Is that true of all radar equipment? I've sometimes been assigned a
new squawk code then heard "radar contact" within a couple of seconds
(usually, though, it's more like 20-30 seconds, which would agree with
what Newps writes).


All the best,


David

Dark lonely night and you are the only airplane in the airspace
squawking VFR. You call up for service I'll give you a code and radar
contact in the same breath.

David Megginson wrote:
Newps writes:


It takes at least two sweeps and sometimes as many as 5 sweeps before
the radar will tag you up on a code you're squawking.


Is that true of all radar equipment? I've sometimes been assigned a
new squawk code then heard "radar contact" within a couple of seconds
(usually, though, it's more like 20-30 seconds, which would agree with
what Newps writes).


All the best,


David