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FAA to Pilots: Keep Transponders On While Taxiing
Safety Alert for Operators 15006 was published by the FAA last week to ensure that pilots realize the need to keep their aircraft transponders turned on to the altitude-reporting mode even when operational on the ground in airport movement areas. (www.ainonline.com) さらに...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
This has been in the AIM for several years but mostly ignored by pilots and instructors.
Great! Now i have to disable my traffic system on every startup and after every landing so I don't get continuous aural and visual traffic warnings while taxiing!
Indeed. Unintended consequences.
Many avionics installations use WOW switches or speed sensors to automatically put the transponders in STBY on the ground no matter what position the function switch is in. Sometimes overriding this is user selectable but an avionics shop may need to make the change.
The only WOW switch I've got is for my beacon. I replaced the original incandescent with an LED-based one, and, wow, that sucker is bright. ;-}
This is exactly right. I have the "new" style of modern, digital transponder. It senses when my airspeed exceeds a certain threshold and only then does it turn on to ALT reporting. To meet this mandate, I'd need to manually override after every startup AND landing, or figure out how to reprogram this setting.