Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site terak.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!hao!noao!terak!doug From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: Under the TCA Message-ID: <624@terak.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 12:13:10 EDT Article-I.D.: terak.624 Posted: Thu Jun 27 12:13:10 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 06:39:16 EDT References: <550@petsd.UUCP> <573@mtuxn.UUCP> Organization: Terak Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ, USA Lines: 17 > 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 ^^^^^--- soon to be CalComp