Transponder code switching

"unknown" wrote:
Its too bad there's not a way to test for the ability to differentiate
between what is important and what is not. Wow....

There is. Look at the age on death certificates.

Ken Pruchnick wrote:
What is the proper way to switch transponder codes? The way I have
been taught is to put the transponder in stand by, switch to the new
code. Then turn it to mode C
I had an instructor tell me to just change it to the new code without
turning it to stand by first.
Like to hear from controllers as to what they prefer.

Just change the numbers, it doesn't matter how you do it. On my plane
the transponder never goes into standby, there's no good reason to ever
turn your transponder off of the ALT position if it is working properly
and you have an avionics master.

I put mine in the alt position after clearing the runway. That way, next
time I turn on the avionics I'm not squawking an IFR code that might be in
use.

Newps wrote:

Ken Pruchnick wrote:
What is the proper way to switch transponder codes? The way I have
been taught is to put the transponder in stand by, switch to the new
code. Then turn it to mode C
I had an instructor tell me to just change it to the new code without
turning it to stand by first.
Like to hear from controllers as to what they prefer.

Just change the numbers, it doesn't matter how you do it. On my plane
the transponder never goes into standby, there's no good reason to ever
turn your transponder off of the ALT position if it is working properly
and you have an avionics master.

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"Ray Andraka" wrote in message
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I put mine in the alt position after clearing the runway. That way, next
time I turn on the avionics I'm not squawking an IFR code that might be in
use.


I assume you meant to write "stby" in place of "alt".

No, I only squawk on the ground. That way no one knows where I am ;-).

Guess it is old age catching up with me, huh?

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

"Ray Andraka" wrote in message
...

I put mine in the alt position after clearing the runway. That way, next
time I turn on the avionics I'm not squawking an IFR code that might be in
use.


I assume you meant to write "stby" in place of "alt".

--
--Ray Andraka, P.E.
President, the Andraka Consulting Group, Inc.
401/884-7930 Fax 401/884-7950
email
http://www.andraka.com

"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, 1759

Ray Andraka wrote:
I put mine in the alt position after clearing the runway. That way, next
time I turn on the avionics I'm not squawking an IFR code that might be in
use.


Doesn't matter as the software in the radar is calibrated so as not to
display a code on the airport. We have ours set so no transponder
returns show until you get more than 1/2 mile away from the antenna,
otherwise the airport would be a clogged mess of returns. And you're
not worried about a code that is in use but one that is not yet in use.