Squawk 1000 from Rhein Radar?

epsum · 25th Jun 2012, 11:46

Hi,

Yesterday flying westbound, first Rhein Radar after Warsaw Control gave us squawk 1000. IFR. Strange thing about it was that also couple other a/c got same code (1000) under same control (1 Lufthansa, 1 LOT and 1 AF). Just wondering, why was this? No more codes available or some kind of new/special procedure?

Regards,

DaveReidUK · 25th Jun 2012, 13:07

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Yesterday flying westbound, first Rhein Radar after Warsaw Control gave us squawk 1000. IFR. Strange thing about it was that also couple other a/c got same code (1000) under same control (1 Lufthansa, 1 LOT and 1 AF). Just wondering, why was this? No more codes available or some kind of new/special procedure?

Both. 1000 is the Mode S Conspicuity Code.

If you are assigned that, it means that the ATC is using your Mode S Aircraft ID (i.e. flight number) to correlate your identity instead of needing a unique Mode A squawk.

The aim is to mitigate the acute shortage of squawk codes.

poldek77 · 26th Jun 2012, 18:23

More info here:

Squawk 1000

BurglarsDog · 26th Jun 2012, 19:54

Already covered in another thread.

BD

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