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From: brent@phoenix.UUCP (Brent P. Callaghan)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Under the TCA
Message-ID: <1204@phoenix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 14:39:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: phoenix.1204
Posted: Wed Jun 19 14:39:24 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 20-Jun-85 10:11:27 EDT
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I have a question for any air traffic controller types
out there in netland.

If I'm flying around under a TCA floor with my transponder set
to 1200 and no mode charlie - how does the controller know
whether I'm below the TCA floor ?
There's no requirement for radio contact and I'm sure the
controller doesn't want to hear from me anyway if he's
stacked up.

If we ARE relying on the controller's good faith - then isn't
there the chance some day that somebody gets it wrong and flies
into the approach of a "heavy" without any warning from the
controller ?
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