Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!bionet!ames!skipper!shafer From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Shuttle Message-ID: Date: 16 Jan 91 03:01:45 GMT References: <576@newave.UUCP> <1991Jan8.213612.10219@athena.mit.edu> <1991Jan9.002921.31851@wpi.WPI.EDU> <7734@castle.ed.ac.uk> <7736@castle.ed.ac.uk> Sender: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal. Lines: 14 In-reply-to: james@castle.ed.ac.uk's message of 9 Jan 91 15:44:01 GMT Somebody writes: 2) Does FAA requires Shuttle to have mode C transponder on board They can't. NASA is a federal agency and isn't subject to FAA requirements. FAA only governs private aviation, not public. Of course, we go along with a lot of it, including sticking N numbers on our fighters, but that's because we have to interact with them. -- Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all"--Unknown US fighter pilot