TA/RA > ALT ON : ATC Question
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TA/RA > ALT ON : ATC Question
Hi ATC
Please can you confirm what difference you see on your screen if an aircraft has transponder with ALT ON or TA/RA ? Am I correct in thinking that ALT ON the TA/RA is suppressed but modes A,C,S are all operating the same in both modes ?
We now have ALT ON on our checklists from taxi to runway and runway to stand.
Thanks.
Please can you confirm what difference you see on your screen if an aircraft has transponder with ALT ON or TA/RA ? Am I correct in thinking that ALT ON the TA/RA is suppressed but modes A,C,S are all operating the same in both modes ?
We now have ALT ON on our checklists from taxi to runway and runway to stand.
Thanks.
AFAIK you select TA when you have a problem (such as an engine failure), and this tells other TCAS equipped aircraft that you will not (cannot) manoeuvre if an RA situation occurs. Thus the other aircraft knows it has to do all the avoiding.
http://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/m...%20booklet.pdf
Try page 12 which says that TA ONLY will not issue an RA
Try page 12 which says that TA ONLY will not issue an RA
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Hmm, we use ALT OFF from just before start request till cleared to enter the runway before departure and from runway to stand on arrival for identification at airports that have surface radar.
Why do you have to use ALT ON - what's the point of Mode C altitude returns when you're taxiing?
Why do you have to use ALT ON - what's the point of Mode C altitude returns when you're taxiing?
But I still don't know how you get from a technical system description to the operational procedure 'you select TA when you have a problem (such as an engine failure), and this tells other TCAS equipped aircraft that you will not (cannot) manoeuvre if an RA situation occurs.
That comes in the checklist for any situation that leads to shutting down an engine:
4 Transponder mode selector . . . . . . TA or TA ONLY
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Is it the same for something requiring a rapid (and maybe uncleared) descent or if you have limited manoeuvrability?
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Why do you have to use ALT ON - what's the point of Mode C altitude returns when you're taxiing?
Radar targets taxying around the airport are filtered out below 300 ft to avoid clutter.
Transponder is required to be on to enable A-SMGCS to operate but without Mode C the altitude is unknown and therefore not filtered, causing nuisance targets.
Don't know enough about TCAS to comment on the TA/RA thing.
At our unit we receive a flashing notification of an RA and then (hopefully) a COC.
How is that downlinked? Via Mode S?
Was that function always there or only after Uberlingen?
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Was that function always there or only after Uberlingen?