Cutting across the backbiting onto a different subject, during the long tailbacks to get to the gates on Saturday I unwittingly turned my transponder to 2000...(it's the obsessive compulsive in me). I took my bollocking like a man, and of course apologized unreservedly..However, can you clarify where it is laid down that we should retain our allocated squawk until the gate..is it an AIP/NOTAM or what.! It certainly isn't in any of our publications . In addition I hear you guys asking a lot of my colleagues (I presume from the callsigns to be Airbus drivers) if they have their txponders turned on...what is the story here..? Does the Airbus equipment go to standby on the ground ..do you have difficulty seeing it vs. Boeings etc..Cheers, and congrats on a great job yesterday..
