The Only time I have ever had a controler tell me to squawk standby
was when I was in a flight of 2 bringing a plane back after we had an
engine overhauled. He did not want 2 transponders next to each other
because the computer would go nuts having two so close to each other.
He then communticated with the lead pilot and I was to follow the same
directions.


Scott

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:40:27 -0500, Roy Smith wrote:

I had a wierd thing happen a week or so ago.

We were VFR, and called up POU tower (class D satellite of NY Approach),
10 southwest landing with blah, blah. The tower controller told us to
squawk standby. After confirming that instruction, we did so and a
little while later he told us to squawk vfr.

When we asked what that was all about, he said it was for radar
identification. A little while later, he did the same thing to another
incomming flight.

Any idea what might have been going on? The only thing I can think of
is some sort of equipment malfuction which let him see that there was a
secondary return, but not read the code or see idents. Is that possible?