Filtonman
20th Oct 2002, 21:20
During my commercial flying training I was taught to select the transponder to standby when changing squawk in case I selected an emergency code an set your alarm bells a ringing.
Once I got into my airline they tell me I dont need to do this as there is around a three second time delay in modern transponders to prevent such panic/saves us selecting stanby.
An F/O mentioned the other day that he had been told we need to select standby when changing now because ,as we scroll through the squawks, we could activate other peoples flight plans well before they got off the ground....does this ring any bells?:rolleyes:
Once I got into my airline they tell me I dont need to do this as there is around a three second time delay in modern transponders to prevent such panic/saves us selecting stanby.
An F/O mentioned the other day that he had been told we need to select standby when changing now because ,as we scroll through the squawks, we could activate other peoples flight plans well before they got off the ground....does this ring any bells?:rolleyes: