To: Red Badger
There must be something more to this story... As a long time, pilot who lives on an airport and owns two airplanes... turning off your transponder just makes your airplane easier to identify on a radar screen along with providing more precise altitude information. It is hardly a trick.
8 posted on
12/11/2024 8:46:44 PM PST by
fireman15
(Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
To: fireman15
Can a transponder be made to give a false ident?........
10 posted on
12/11/2024 8:48:38 PM PST by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: fireman15
turning off your transponder just makes your airplane easier to identify on a radar screen along with providing more precise altitude information.As an air traffic controller, for 20 years, I found if a pilot turned off his transponder, we got no altitude readout at all, and it was extremely hard to identify an aircraft.
27 posted on
12/12/2024 12:55:29 AM PST by
Mark17
(Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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