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cardiffrob
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Mode S comedy

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Nice piece of hangar chat for you all.

I flew a 757 from Cardiff to Sharm el Sheik in Egypt (2500 miles each way) last night. We got as far as the Swiss/Italian border when the controller asked if we could reset our Mode S ident (in the form of ABC1234 for the flight callsign) since it had been left on the code for the previous flight to Palma.
On the way home I started aking each sector for a Mode S check. The UK didn't come up with a single radar controller who could read Mode S and this is in Mode S compulsory airspace, isn't it?


Can someone remind me why we need to all go out and buy one? :?
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cardiffrob wrote: Can someone remind me why we need to all go out and buy one? :?
"Cos we wuz told to"
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John Price
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Post by John Price »

Well, think about this one 2 recent consultations, Mode S and the Nats TCN thing. Nats recieve 15,000 responses and publish initial feedback after approx 4 weeks. Mode S 2000 responses, and nothing since the end of May. They must be trying to come up with some other ruse to make the Mode S nightmare more palletable.

John.
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