Ooops, missed the IDENT button
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Topic: Ooops, missed the IDENT button
Posted By: oskrypuch
Subject: Ooops, missed the IDENT button
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2014 at 9:52pm
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Happened to me the other day, busy on the initial climb out, asked to IDENT, a bit of a bump and my finger slipped down to the VFR button! Shoot! Well, easy way to get the original code back ...  * Orest |
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Posted By: MysticCobra
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2014 at 10:34pm
| Thanks for the pointer/reminder, Orest. I'm sure that same thing will happen to most AXP340 owners sooner rather than later! |
Posted By: oskrypuch
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2014 at 10:37pm
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I was kind of wondering what might be the purpose of that feature. No longer. * Orest |
Posted By: Royski
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2014 at 9:10am
| In my local area (Washington DC Flight Restricted Zone and Special Flight Rules Area), flying with a VFR a transponder code (but not another incorrect code) results in immediate action against your pilot certificate. I've considered reprogramming the code to 7600, but instead settled for a remote IDENT button and hoping that if I do accidentally hit the VFR button, a quick second press will save me. |
Posted By: oskrypuch
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2014 at 10:57am
That is a very interesting observation. I have flown through it, and remember being very deliberate when my hand was close to the transponder. In Canada we use 1000 for an IFR flight that does not have a code yet assigned, eg. taking off to get clearance in the air, it's an ICAO thing. It is pretty rare that I fly VFR, I may reprogram it to 1000 instead. * Orest |
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