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To: xone

If you are outside radar range...


92 posted on 03/11/2014 10:08:36 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

or electronic signal absorption?


93 posted on 03/11/2014 10:09:48 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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Turning back put it in a better place to be spotted initially. Flight westward across the IO is a place of admitted gaps in coverage and flight following.


104 posted on 03/11/2014 10:34:38 AM PDT by xone
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The transponder needs radar. It gets 'interrogated' by radar and then 'replies' with the preset code. If it is out of radar range, it doesn't matter whether it is on or not.

In normal ICAO operations a flight is flown as filed or as cleared. Controllers than expect the flight to appear on their screen squawking the proper code, and contacting or answering up on the correct freq. Where the flight crosses many airspace divisions, the controllers hand off to the next guy for flight following.

112 posted on 03/11/2014 10:49:58 AM PDT by xone
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