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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Under the TCA
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Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 12:13:10 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 27 12:13:10 1985
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> By the way, there is a proposal by the FAA to REQUIRE all transponder equipped
> planes to have them on at all times, not just when under ATC! This was metioned
> in the last AOPA magazine, and is being fought but may well become regs.

I missed this one -- was it in AOPA Pilot or in the Newsletter?

Would this regulation likely be any more effective than the SCATANA regs
which require that you constantly monitor an FAA voice frequency if your
plane is radio-equipped?

I wonder what would happen in the L.A. basin, where the FAA is pleading
for pilots who are operating in airport traffic patterns to "squawk
standby" because there are too many interrogators and too many
transponders and the replies are interfering with each other.
-- 
Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{ihnp4,seismo,decvax}!noao!terak!doug
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