ooooh gooody
Been wanting to get this off my chest for some time.
Concur completely with 055166k
PLEASE take more care when changing squawk! If you punch the code in directly then fine, but if you've got the little thumb wheel things then turn it to standby - one missed sweep of a radar does not a TCAS nightmare make. I, the other surveillance people and, I'm sure, D&D are sick to death of chasing up the endless spurious emergency squawks caused by this phenomenon, especially when you set it wrong and then trog all over the country VFR trailing a set of little flashing E's after your radar return - it makes my display all messy!