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Youre right, but once in a while Ron needs to disagree with
anything/everything posted. He once made a mistake and disageed with himself ;-) I think it has something to do with either not getting laid enough or getting screwed too much. But dont we all have one of those problems on a regular basis? On Wed, 29 May 2002 01:36:37 GMT, Newps > > >Javier Henderson wrote: > >> Ron Natalie >> >> > >> > >> > >> > Avid Flyer wrote: >> > >> > > I am going to replace my KT76A (which uses rotary switches) by a KT76C >> > > (which features a keypad and a read-back display). >> > > >> > So the buttons can fail rather than the knobs? >> >> Yeah, but at least he has visual confirmation of what hes sending, >> instead of trusting that the code sent by the transponder matches the >> digits on the little windows. >> >> I had that problem once or twice, on rental (ie, poorly maintained) >> aircraft in the past, what I dialed wasnt what the xpndr was >> sending. Moving the switches back and forth cured the problem though. >> > >Having seens hundreds of thousands of transponder replies on the radar over >the years, worrying about the transponder sending the wrong code is assinine. >Any transponder is fine. > > |
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