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SSA petition to allow transponder to be turned off
Check out the SSA website for the complete info on this petition, and
consider commenting to the FAA (comments due by March 1, via web site, mail, fax, "eRulemaking portal"): SSA Transponder Petition Published By Dennis Wright Posted Thursday, February 19, 2004 The SSA petition asks that SSA members be allowed to operate transponder-equipped gliders with the transponders turned off, when the glider is being operated more than 40 nautical miles from the primary airport in Class B airspace and more than 20 nautical miles from the primary airport in Class C airspace. Currently, Federal Aviation Regulation 91.215[c] requires that all aircraft equipped with a transponder and operating in controlled airspace have the transponder on. ....more on the web site -- ----- change "netto" to "net" to email me directly Eric Greenwell Washington State USA |
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