Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 18, 2025

For missions that would entail a tedious drive of several hours via automobile but are too short to be reasonably served by the airlines, a complex, high-performance airplane is virtually unbeatable when it comes to door-to-door travel times. When it comes time to upgrade the avionics, the clean layout should ease the installation.

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Transponder Airplanes Drag Knot 98

AV Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Some of them seem funny to us now, like the fact that most of our airplanes had no radios or, God forbid, transponders and ELTs, while other facets of the 1970s are tragic. When I became an airline pilot at the beginning of 1979, the training classes and flight decks were male only clubs.

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Flight Deck Transponder Cockpit Checkride 95

AV Web

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Malaysia has announced it will resume the search for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 which disappeared on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. The transponder signal ended just before the plane deviated from its flight path and was last tracked flying west over the Andaman Sea.

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Transponder Pilot Airline Airlines 111

Fear of Landing

MAY 24, 2024

A few days ago (21st of May 2024), Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 encountered heavy turbulence on a passenger flight from London-Heathrow to Singapore. Aircraft have a transponder on board, a piece of equipment that identifies the aircraft and specific details to radar installations. We already know it’s having an impact,” he says.

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Turbulence UTC Weather Airline 94

Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 31, 2025

Mike had built up a considerable amount of flight hours, and had his sights set on a job flying for the airlines. The airlines eventually did come calling for Mike, but he found that the maintenance business was supporting him, and he could be his own boss. .” He began giving Stearman rides, just like his father had.

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Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Annual Inspection 98

Ask the Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2025

A week later, a Blackhawk military helicopter collided with a PSA Airlines regional jet maneuvering to land at Reagan National Airport. For the system to work optimally, both aircraft need to be wired in, so to speak, with their transponders exchanging speed and altitude data. Not a good way to begin the year.

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Air Traffic Control Transponder Jet Pilot 93

Air Facts

JUNE 17, 2024

Landing lights, pitot heat, transponder, and deice systems require no human intervention. With the cost of pilot-labor skyrocketing, it’s only a matter of time before an airline (with shockingly high leverage over an aircraft manufacturer) requests a single-pilot, narrow-body design.

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Pilot Cockpit Transponder Jet 98

Northstar VFR

AUGUST 25, 2024

Every airline/operator must establish a Continuous Airworthiness Maintenance Program (CAMP). T: TRANSPONDER INSPECTION (FAR 91.413) The transponder also must be inspected every 24 calendar months, even for flight under VFR (visual flight rules).

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Annual Inspection VOR Instrument Flight Rules Altimeter 64

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Key Takeaways Airports that fall under Class C designation handle general aviation and airline traffic. Aircraft need to have a two-way radio, transponder with Mode C, and Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) Out equipment. Transponder with Mode C to report altitude.

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Clearance Transponder Knot Indicated Airspeed 52

Fear of Landing

MARCH 15, 2024

Regulations do not mandate gliders carry transponders, such as FLARM or ADS-B, and many do not. An additional problem for collecting data on gliders stems from their lack of transponders. EASA’s annual safety reports show that they have accounted for about 25-30% of aviation midair collisions over the last 10 years.

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AV Web

JULY 7, 2024

If you discount the fact that it is missing a flight director, autopilot, and autothrottles, my airplane is better equipped than most airliners I have flown. I was trained and prepared to solo but did not have to take a written quiz, talk on the radio, know what a transponder was, or deal with a lot of aircraft systems knowledge.

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Cockpit Airplanes VOR Transponder 75

Flightworx

MAY 1, 2024

Secondary Radar : This radar is more advanced and it involves sending out a signal that is received by a transponder on the aircraft. The transponder then sends back a signal containing specific information such as the aircraft’s identity and altitude.

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Air Traffic Control Transponder Weather Flight Plan 52

Flight Training Central

MARCH 18, 2024

The level of control goes from zero in some areas to considerable control around congested, big city, airports that serve considerable airline traffic. Class B Airspace typically takes on the shape of an upside down wedding cake and extends to 10,000′ Class B airports typically accommodate a high volume of airline traffic.

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AGL Indicated Airspeed Clearance Transponder 52

iPad Pilot News

APRIL 22, 2024

In particular, it’s great for GA pilots flying unpressurized airplanes, since the majority of PIREPs usually come from airline pilots in the flight levels. Also note that you must be flying with an active ADS-B Out transponder on your airplane, but this new feature does not require a Sentry firmware update. ForeFlight version 16.4

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Turbulence Airplanes Weather Pilot 81

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Flying within the SFRA, whether it is within the FRZ or not, requires all aircraft to broadcast an assigned transponder code. change the transponder to 1200) after terminating flight following or cancelling IFR. change the transponder to 1200) after terminating flight following or cancelling IFR. That cannot happen in the FRZ.

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Transponder Approach Clearance General Aviation 52

Air Facts

AUGUST 5, 2024

It has a mid-time engine (O-320-D3G rated at 160 hp), fairly recent annual inspection and 24 month pitot-ptatic/transponder test. That big day finally arrives, and not being able to contain yourself for much longer, you decide to bite the bullet and fly down via the airlines.

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Density Altitude Ceiling Runway Weather 98

AeroSavvy

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A flight crew prepares a Boeing 767 for flight Every airline develops its own preflight procedures. Captain, first officer, and international relief officer preflight task assignments are different at every airline. Airlines are moving toward electronic maintenance logbooks. Every airline develops its own preflight flows.

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Flight Deck Clearance Runway Pilot 52

Pilot Institute

APRIL 24, 2024

You’ll always find a steady stream of airliners queued up for departure and arrival. All aircraft inside the veil must have an operating Mode C transponder and ADS-B Out. Due to its high elevation, Denver’s Class B airspace extends up to 12,000 feet MSL to give airliners room to descend. Just fly under a shelf!

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Clearance Ceiling Airspace Classes Transponder 52

Ask the Pilot

MARCH 19, 2024

March 19, 2024 TEN YEARS AGO this month, Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappeared during a routine flight between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing. Oh sure, radios, transponders, emergency locator transmitters, GPS, real-time position streaming, satellite tracking. The wreckage was never found. But all of that is fallible, one way or another.

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Transponder Pilot Jet Airline 52

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Flying a light airplane offers access to thousands more airports than the airlines serve, which means you can land closer to your destination, avoid long taxi routes, and save time. Call for your IFR clearance, including route, altitude, and transponder code. First is “enter controlled airspace on heading XXX.”

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Clearance Air Traffic Control Airplanes Transponder 52

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Commercial airliners, like smaller regional jets. This is a button on the transponder (or Garmin) near where you input your squawk code. If anything confused you, read more about identing in our article Transponder Modes Explained. Usually, this is small, light aircraft used in general aviation(single-engine airplanes).

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Approach Knot Runway Distance Measuring Equipment 52

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In the C-53 Spirit of Douglas, the crew was riding in style with the recently renovated cabin that evokes the luxury of early airliners. The crew of Western Airlines had a starkly different transatlantic journey. There was another father-son duo on the tour, Tim and Job Savage of Western Airlines. Boys all appear calm and ready.

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Airplanes Pilot Cockpit Tail 97

Aerotime

MARCH 14, 2025

On March 11, 2025, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) published its preliminary report into the crash, in which it confirmed that the accident helicopter was equipped with a transponder capable of transmitting ADS-B out. Military flight crews are not compelled to have an aircrafts ADS-B switched on in all circumstances.

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Air Traffic Control Transponder Runway Pilot 269

Aerotime

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Frontier Airlines crew members reported a chemical smell that became increasingly pungent before an emergency landing at Harry Reid International Airport (LAS) in Las Vegas that resulted in a dramatic brake fire. As the source of the odor could not be established, the electrical emergency configuration procedure was initiated.

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Cockpit Transponder Cabin Crew Descent 278

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Even when dealing with new procedures, I do better than the airlines! America by Air Occupying the western atrium of the NASM, the America by Air exhibit celebrates commercial air travel and features this beautiful, gleaming Eastern Airlines DC-3. My timing for the entire morning was driven by that entry time. Cockpit of a DC-7.

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Airplanes General Aviation Cockpit Transponder 52

Universal Weather

APRIL 22, 2024

Only aircraft equipped with the following equipment can be listed on the blanket permit: ELT, CVR, FDR, TCAS II, TAWS/GPWS, & Transponder. If passengers fly to Mexico by commercial airline, it’s not permissible for them to leave the country aboard a non-Mexican charter aircraft unless approved by AFAC.

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Transponder Cargo Airlines Airline 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2024

That attitude, making the most of the systems that remain, is the key to dealing with in-flight emergencies in jet airliners, military jets, and especially our piston-powered ma-chines down here in GA land. Just like the airline glass cockpits, this is called systems integration. One common remedy is the ubiquitous iPad/tablet.

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Cockpit Transponder Pilot Ceiling 103

Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

As 2024 draws to a close, there can be little doubt that, over the course of the year, airline safety has continued to reach new levels, with fewer accidents, fewer aircraft being written off, and fewer fatalities. This list is not exhaustive, however.

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Runway Airline Airlines Horizontal Stabilizer 258

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

With a passenger capacity of six, the airplane was popular with early airlines Braniff, Delta, and Northwest, though it was also an effective freight hauler. This 1927 SM-1 "Detroiter" was built in Stinson's Detroit plant and eventually donated to ORA in 2023. 1927 Stinson SM-1 "Detroiter" (original).

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Airplanes Runway Pilot Aileron 56

Fear of Landing

MARCH 28, 2025

Northern England, 2024 An Airbus A320neo departed Oslo, Norway normally as SAS Scandanavian Airlines Connect flight SK-4609 for a passenger flight to Manchester, England, with an estimated flight time of two hours and fifteen minutes. However, the A320neo was still broadcasting its originally assigned transponder code.

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Air Traffic Control Tail Transponder Jet 52

Flying Magazine

APRIL 29, 2024

The call sign Air Force One was adopted after a 1953 incident when a commercially operated Eastern Airlines flight, 8610, crossed paths with “Columbine II,” a Lockheed VC-121-ALO Constellation, designated Air Force 8610, that was carrying Eisenhower. Air Force/Senior Airman Ryan Crane] Can We Track Air Force One on FlightAware?

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