Originally Posted by
AirUK
Our company, which flies Europe-wide, seems to have an un-written policy of setting 0000 instead of 2000 on arrival
My original airline used to have the same, 0000. The policy was put in place as a best practice based on ATC request during the implenetation of A-SMGCS; home base was one of Europe's first three to go operational with it. Whether it is still the case, that in A-SMGCS environment 0000 has some special significance, I do not know. At the same time, we had been asked to put sqawk on AUTO
before calling for pushback - seemed very reasonable.
regards,
FD.