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Subject:Re: Transponder advice?
From:Ron Natalie
Date:Wed May 29 07:55:26 2002


Javier Henderson wrote:

>
> 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.

Ive had the problem as well. Its never been a big issue. One time
talking to COS approach, I even dialed through the range of numbers and
they read them back to me (it was a slow time on the frequency). That
one didnt go away with squidging the numbers.



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