Flying into Chass B

Allen wrote:


I was sitting at the end of the runway waiting to do a test flight in a
customer's aircraft. He had a MFD hooked up to a Garmin 530 and TCAS.
There were several airplanes in the pattern, the MFD was giving me their "N"
number, squawk code and altitude. A T37 in the pattern only gave out his
altitude and squawk code.

Probably TIS rather than TCAS.

In article . net, "Steven P.
McNicoll" writes:

Who does your GTX330 report your N number to?


I assumed that it is transmitted back with altitude and code. Good question
about it being available to controller. As a controller, what do you know
about it being displayed at your end?

Ron Natalie ) wrote:


I was sitting at the end of the runway waiting to do a test flight in a
customer's aircraft. He had a MFD hooked up to a Garmin 530 and TCAS.
There were several airplanes in the pattern, the MFD was giving me their "N"
number, squawk code and altitude. A T37 in the pattern only gave out his
altitude and squawk code.

Probably TIS rather than TCAS.

The Garmin TIS behind which I fly does not display an N number, either
on the GNS430 or the MX20. The only number near the target is the
relative altitude of the target in relation to my aircraft.

--
Peter

A NASA form was intended to collect information about the national airspace
system
Accordingly, for being so generous and providing information you get a pass
as I understand it.

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:32:53 GMT, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:

Who does your GTX330 report your N number to?

I don't think they do directly report the N number, but doesn't the
installer-coded Mode S octal code get downllinked to ATC whenever a
mode-s enabled ground interrogator paints it, regardless of the unit's
user-selectable "flight id" or 4096 code setting, thus effectively
downlinking the N number because of a trivial database lookup?

"Peter R." wrote in message
...
Ron Natalie ) wrote:


I was sitting at the end of the runway waiting to do a test flight in
a
customer's aircraft. He had a MFD hooked up to a Garmin 530 and TCAS.
There were several airplanes in the pattern, the MFD was giving me
their "N"
number, squawk code and altitude. A T37 in the pattern only gave out
his
altitude and squawk code.

Probably TIS rather than TCAS.

The Garmin TIS behind which I fly does not display an N number, either
on the GNS430 or the MX20. The only number near the target is the
relative altitude of the target in relation to my aircraft.

--
Peter

I would guess the aircraft you are receiving the info from would have to
have mode S.

Allen

"PaulaJay1" wrote in message
...
Do I feel DUMB!

Flying west at 4500 ft I was "fat,dumb and happy" when I noticed I was in
a
4000/10000 ft Class B vail. DIVE to get to 2500. I was not on the radio
and
chose not to call approach.

OK, I did that as a student pilot. What they do is men in dark suits come to
your door on a dark, foggy night, beat the snot out of you, and disappear.
Seriously, nothing happened. You will suffer some temporary embarrassment.

only if the controllers interrogator is set to receive ModeS


"PaulaJay1" wrote in message
...
In article . net, "Steven
P.
McNicoll" writes:

Who does your GTX330 report your N number to?


I assumed that it is transmitted back with altitude and code. Good
question
about it being available to controller. As a controller, what do you know
about it being displayed at your end?

BTIZ wrote:
only if the controllers interrogator is set to receive ModeS

That's funny. My radar is mode S with a non mode S backup(IBI).
Whether we set the radar to work in mode S or IBI mode I cannot display
any different kind of data.

Allen ) wrote:

I would guess the aircraft you are receiving the info from would have to
have mode S.

Well, I have only had the unit since July, so I suppose it is possible
that I have yet to look at the screen at the moment a mode S transponder
passed by.

But, the chances should have been pretty good that during the last eight
times through NY class B airspace I would have seen one mode S return,
no?

--
Peter