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"C J Campbell" wrote in message ...
"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. As another poster pointed out, the nasa form is a "get out of jail free" card. You would still have a violation if they pursued it. That would interest your ins co. I was involved in a similar situation. Investigation showed that the appr control involved was not looking at the mode S data. Whew. Bill Hale |
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GTX330 is a mode S transponder. It replies to certain interogations with the
24 bit code assigned to your aircraft, and to another interogation with a user id that is programmed by the installing shop. For GA aircraft, that is usually programmed with the N number. It can also be programmed (perhaps not on the garmin) with a flight number as you'd have in the case of a scheduled airline. Mode C transponders only offer two replies: the squawk code or the altitude. Mode S have a bunch of possible replies. Allen wrote: "Peter R." wrote in message ... Allen ) wrote: All I know is it was displaying "N" numbers, and they were accurate. The airplane has been delivered so I can't see if he had additional equipment installed that allowed that. I was not questioning your observation. I was simply stating that I do not see it in my installation, that's all. Was the display cluttered with all that info? Were you able to quickly garner the pertinent traffic information, such as direction and relative altitude, with the N number mixed in? I do not see the value in having the N number displayed, but perhaps there is some reason for it I am missing. -- Peter I had the screen de-cluttered (nav info off). I do recall now that this airplane had an active datalink, it was showing thunderstorm watch boxes in my area. Perhaps the info was coming from ATC or a flight tracking vendor. The screen would update fast enough you could see the other airplane's position in the pattern and then the collision avoidance alert would go off as he got near. Allen -- --Ray Andraka, P.E. President, the Andraka Consulting Group, Inc. 401/884-7930 Fax 401/884-7950 http://www.andraka.com "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, 1759 |
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"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ... "Steven P. McNicoll" wrote: So what's the point in sending it to ATC? There was considerable suspicion in the aviation community back in the early 90s that the FAA planned to require ATC to display the info and report violators once all aircraft were required to have mode-S transponders. That requirement kept getting postponed and seems to have finally died (for now, at least). Personally, I believe that the suspicions were correct and controllers would be doing more police work now if the FAA had its way. We're getting that in 2008...compulsory Mode S. On top of the violation thing (which can happen at any time, regardless of whether the number is displayed on the screen or not...I expect it would be recorded) there's also the suspicion that it could be used for charging for airspace use. Paul |
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