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Cockpit weather display question
OK, so there I was, training one of our scarce "newbie" controllers at ZTL
yesterday. There was a lot of convective weather and we were busy busy busy trying to keep people from killing each other in the saddles and holes between the storms. Anyway, as usual when I am training someone and its crazy busy, something came up that I'd never seen before. Hopefully one of you guys can fill me in. We've got an aircraft at FL170, headed south inbound the Atlanta terminal area, where the weather is really going bad. I forget the airplane type, it seems it was a C210 but I can't remember. He's about 150 NM north of ATL. The pilot calls my trainee and asks for permission to turn off his transponder for five minutes so that he can "Go download the latest weather". The trainee had to ask the pilot to say his request again, and then looked askance at me for an answer. All I could say was "Well, that's a new one for me, bud. Let him do it and we'll see what happens". His transponder was only off for a minute or maybe two tops, not the five he asked for. We were too busy to do what I'd normally do, which is ask the pilot on the spot for a brief education on what he is up to. I thought I understood the basics of some of the new in-cockpit weather tools for GA aircraft. I figured he was getting the latest Nexrad picture from some online resource. What I don't understand is why he needed to turn his transponder off to do so. Any help appreciated. Thanks, Chip, ZTL |
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