Posted on 06/03/2005 7:25:05 AM PDT by Petronski
Right...don't transponders just have basically an off/standby/on switch, and then the buttons or dials for the code, and then the "ident" button that causes your information to flash or light up for the controller, so he can confirm it?
I can see somebody like me screwing up and accidentally putting 7500 in a transponder (momentarily), and I've heard stories about that happening before. But somebody flying an A330 or A340 across the Atlantic with 271 people onboard? Both members of the crew are NOT going to be newbies. That's a huge screwup, if that's what it is.
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Surplus? Sigh.
Are these the same people that pull 80 year old nuns out of the passenger lines for a cavity search?! How do we define "unusual" here?
"NO ONE SEEMED UPSET"
They were actually surprised to find out that canada has jet fighters.
LOLOL
Do I have time to take a shower..LOL
Except as the hijackers started slicing throats, I bet the pilot could be convinced to give up the code.
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Nevermind.
Actually F-18's, designated CF-18's by the Canadian Armed Forces.
7500 sorry. 7700 is inflight emergency. I'm a knucklehead
Yeah, but they're ours. They have a bunch of F/A-18 Hornets, except up there they call 'em CF-18s.
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There is a squawk button, but all pilots I know and all air traffic controllers I know refer to it as the "ident" button since pressing the button lights up your blip on the controllers' radar screen. I had to use it once when I was doing my first long cross-country flight from Manchester, NH to Bangor, ME and got lost in northern Maine (once you leave the Portland area there's nothing to navigate by but lakes if you screw up your navigation planning, and there are a ton of them in northern Maine). The Bangor tower asked me to "ident". I did and they were able to vector me in to airport from where I was.
Yes, FR will page you if anything develops. Just enter the proper code when you log in.
I was watching "Dr. Pheeel" when ABC broke in to say it was 'constant chatter', constant repeating of the hijack code. As mentioned, it's a Virgin Air flight from LONDON to NYC, diverted to New Brunswick. With the pilot reassuring air traffic control that all was well and it was an error. Hmmmm... That doesn't strike me as accidental, but rather as a pilot with a gun to his head or a pilot as hijacker. I hope not. It's been diverted to Moncton, NB (Canada) with Canadian fighter jets scrambled to accompany it. It seems odd at best.
It refers to the large-body aircraft (typically those with 2 aisles, say), like the 747, as opposed to 737, 727, etc.
Who looks like she has had her jaws sucked in. Run Rush Run. It AIN'T worth it, as you should know by now. She is just darn weird looking. Almost like Michael Jackson! I don't remember her looking like this.
Ummm. Those are probably just geese.
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