In 1973, I was such a real man, I didn't even HAVE a transponder! Now, I'm no
longer a "Real Man", I'm a "Real Old Man", and the less I have to remember, the
less I forget. Also, in 1973 I didn't have a flight computer, Flarm, inReach, or a
motor clogging my memory.

Also glad I don't have to remember to hook up the controls correctly - really glad
about that.

:^)

Dan Marotta wrote on 12/1/2019 7:50 AM:
Since I started flying in 1973 REAL MEN (:-D) manually switched their transponders
from Off to STBY to ON, then from OFF to STBY to ON to ALT, then from OFF to STBY
to On to GND to ALT.* Now all you weenies need to have a "system" to do it for
you. Is the switch count too high?* I guess the next thing you'll all need is
instant coffee or beer in cans...

Happy December!* Winter is just three weeks away.

respond to that is uh anybody's guess.* I just have an image in my mind of
somebody seeing a transponder reply LCD thingy blink when in GND mode at some
time and say "ha see it's replying OK". Ah nope, it's replying to a small
subset of stuff. Flying in GND mode is a bad idea.

I thought it might be a bad idea, but it was easy to do, so worth asking. When I
do a TABS install, I will use an airspeed sensor - easy and cheap enough.




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