In a previous article, (Michael) said:
to receiving a transponder code from San Juan? I was thinking that
the answer would be 1200 but the AIM says that 1200 is for VFR traffic
in the United States. Should you know the answer, I would also like
to know from where I can find the answer.

Oh no, not again.

Michael, there was a huge and long lasting flame war on this very subject
in this newsgroup. Suffice it to say, this is an extremely gray area -
nowhere does it say specifically what you should do, in either the FARs,
the AIM, or even in the ATC regs that controllers all assume we pilots
know that we've never actually even heard of until they're mentioned in
this group. The regulations *do* specifically say that you should use
1200 when VFR if you haven't been assigned a discrete code. In my
opinion, the regs don't say that's the *only* time you squawk 1200, but
that's where most of the contraversy comes from - a lot of people
vehemently disagree with that interpretation.

Other countries have specific codes for uncontrolled IFR spelled out
specifically in their regs. Lucky them.

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to do is let them have exactly what they ask for.
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