FAA to enforce aircraft registration regulations

This has been on the news lately, but I've been wondering why, since
the FAA has been crying about budget constraints. But it just occurred
to me that the real reason they want the address file correct is to
collect user charges.

You are most likely correct. I expect that they will make you
re-register your aircraft every year and CHARGE you $$ for the
privilege or making the sky safer. HA!!! I will bet the total number
of errors in the data base goes up since they have to stir the entire
data base every year.

Now if you were a bad guy why would you obey the rules? The answer is
obvious to everyone but Washington bureaucrats. Use the call sign of
a aircraft that you saw that was just parked somewhere. The radar
can not tell the make model and color of the aircraft. Did the guys
that crashed the airliners into the world trade centers request
permission to descend and fly closer than 500 feet to a building? Did
they know that they BROKE the LAW?? What a joke!!
This is just another way to make criminals out of good law abiding
people for some small paper work error.


On 20 Dec 2005 18:48:55 -0800, "Paul kgyy"
wrote:

This has been on the news lately, but I've been wondering why, since
the FAA has been crying about budget constraints. But it just occurred
to me that the real reason they want the address file correct is to
collect user charges.

John_F wrote:
You are most likely correct. I expect that they will make you
re-register your aircraft every year and CHARGE you $$ for the
privilege or making the sky safer. HA!!! I will bet the total number
of errors in the data base goes up since they have to stir the entire
data base every year.

Now if you were a bad guy why would you obey the rules? The answer is
obvious to everyone but Washington bureaucrats. Use the call sign of
a aircraft that you saw that was just parked somewhere. The radar
can not tell the make model and color of the aircraft.

Are you sure of that? When I look up planes in the FAA registration
database, one of the pieces of data included is a "Mode S Code". I'm
not sure what that is but I always thought it was unique and can be
queried from a transponder. they may not have that capability now, but
if they start user fees they may upgrade, or even worse require us to.

xyzzy wrote:
The radar
can not tell the make model and color of the aircraft.


Are you sure of that? When I look up planes in the FAA registration
database, one of the pieces of data included is a "Mode S Code". I'm
not sure what that is but I always thought it was unique and can be
queried from a transponder. they may not have that capability now, but
if they start user fees they may upgrade, or even worse require us to.

The mode-S code is transmitted only if you have a mode-S (not Modess)
transponder. If you don't know, you probably don't have one.