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FAA Transponder Requirements Explained

Pilot Institute

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has rules to keep air travel safe, and one big part of that is making sure airplanes have the right transponders. Transponders are an important part of an aircraft’s avionics system and help with tracking and safety. Key Takeaways Transponders aid ATC, safety, and tracking.

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Boeing 737-400F destroyed after inflight fire and emergency landing in Brazil   

Aerotime

However, about five minutes before landing, radio contact was lost with the pilots, although the transponder continued to work normally which transmitted the aircraft’s height and position information to the air traffic controllers at Guarulhos Airport. The aircraft was directed towards runway 28L at Guarulhos for a priority landing.

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NTSB Delayed In Altitude Verification Of Collision Aircraft

AV Web

The radar scope in front of the controller working both aircraft showed the helicopter at 200 feet and that figure was transmitted directly from the Blackhawk’s Mode S transponder. The FDR and ADS-B on the plane put its altitude at 325 feet plus or minus 25 feet.

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Round Dials or Glass Cockpits?

Plane and Pilot

Ask the front porch gang at the local airport which is better, a “six-pack” full of traditional round dial instruments or a bright new glass cockpit screen, and the answers will be all over the map. So, the answer to the question— round dials or glass cockpit ?—is Round Dials or Glass Cockpits: Which Is Easier to Fly?

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Hang On

Plane and Pilot

ATC announced loss of transponder data. Among the wreckage pulled up from the depths was a cockpit video recorder. NTSB review of cockpit video showed the MFD wasnt working on the last four flights. Its smaller than the main EADI, and the pilot has to awkwardly look across the cockpit to use it, but it should have got them home.

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Girls, Girls, Girls

AV Web

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. Saying that things were different back then would be a major understatement.

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CEO Of The Cockpit: The Good Old Days

AV Web

Had he investigated the cockpit of my ride, he might have noticed the ADSb capability, two electronic multi-function displays, the panel-mounted GPS backed up with an iPad using Foreflight driven by a Sentinel, and the rescue hand-held GPS in the glovebox. The idea of hanging a video camera on our struts or cockpits would have horrified us.

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