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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Transponder reg
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Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 17:29:52 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 13 17:29:52 1986
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Organization: Calcomp Display Products Division, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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According to AOPA Pilot magazine, as of last December 2 a new FAA
regulation requires anyone with an operable transponder to have it
running whenever they are airborne in controlled airspace.  Ditto for
altitude encoders.

The FAA seems to have forgotten to tell me about this, although they
did send a number of notices over the last few months, including
recommended procedures for practice ILS's at Casa Grande, and one
listing a number of errors on the current Phoenix sectional chart.

The current FAA administration must be setting new records for the
number of restrictions and requirements that they've implemented
-- and are trying to implement -- without ever showing need,
effectiveness, nor practicality.

I suppose, though, that it would be difficult to police the wonderful
new ARSAs if they had to rely solely on primary returns to detect
violators :-(
-- 
Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {hardy,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug