On Apr 2, 12:14*pm, Greg Arnold wrote:
On 4/2/2010 11:09 AM, Frank Whiteley wrote:



On Apr 2, 11:56 am, Greg *wrote:
On 4/2/2010 10:52 AM, Frank Whiteley wrote:

On Apr 2, 11:42 am, * *wrote:
SoaringNV is sponsoring a Minden Wave Camp this week. *As part of our
camp we have invited the tower controllers from Reno TRACON to talk to
us about communication with them, something we do for every camp. *We
learned, quite inadvertantly, that a nationwide transponder squawk
code has been assigned to gliders: 1201.

SO, from now on your transponder should be set to squawk 1201 anywhere
in the US (including the Reno airspace, where we have used a different
squawk code by agreement between PASCO and the controllers.)

Please use 1201 squawk code in your glider transponder.

Fred LaSor
SoaringNV
775 790-4314
Minden, NV

Referenced here

http://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/m...110.66D%20.pdf

This has been the law since November, and no one has known about it?

Para 4 may give some indication as it cancels a long standing order.

I wonder if the discrete 440 was still being used out of Reno even
after this order appeared?

Maybe someone in the field finally used it. *At least we now. *It will
be interesting to see happens in centers when the 1201 code starts
appearing. *Some will need to go to the bookshelf.

Isn't the SSA in contact with the FAA about this type of thing?
Shouldn't the SSA have let us know?

The SSA was tracking this with the expectation that code 0000 might be
assigned in February as was announced. SSA later announced that 0000
would not be used and that 1201 was being considered, but that was the
latest word, which was after the date of this order. If you've ever
been in the federal government or the military you might understand
that the new order replaced the old order, but no one was particularly
screening such orders for niche changes, despite the fact this
particular item was bolded in the order. At the SSB seminar,
transponders were discussed at length and a surprising number of
attendees raised their hands when asked if they flew with
transponders. None commented about this assignment and several are
high time commercial pilots. Not clear where the conversation broke
down, but the word's out now. Thanks Fred.

Frank Whiteley