I screwed up...I infringed!
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MJ I've never flown in Scotland, but its on my list, I hope your friends will be willing to talk to me too, I realise I could have just put 7000 in and carried on but was once told it doesn't do controllers any favours just heading towards their zone without them knowing your intentions, so if they see the appropriate squawk they know you have a reasonable amount of situational awareness and should be on frequency, incase I do anything daft, I've been given traffic info also, but I don't think that's what the system was designed for.
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You will have no problems with Scottish info and for that matter crossing clearances for any controlled airspace. Scottish info don't have the same loading as London and the people working the service some might say are slightly mad (well one of them certainly) this leads them to give quite a personal service which goes a long way to making people want to talk to them.
Keep 7000 and mode C on anyway there is a growing number of aircraft fitted with various anti-collision system which require it to work.
Its more than likely not required the traffic info but personally I think its a good compromise and keeps busy frequency's clear and gives you someone to instantly speak to if you have any problems.
I hope you enjoy your trip up north when you get round to it. Be warned though once you have been up once you will go again.
Keep 7000 and mode C on anyway there is a growing number of aircraft fitted with various anti-collision system which require it to work.
Its more than likely not required the traffic info but personally I think its a good compromise and keeps busy frequency's clear and gives you someone to instantly speak to if you have any problems.
I hope you enjoy your trip up north when you get round to it. Be warned though once you have been up once you will go again.
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fisbangwallop on 17th August 2011:
Two years on and no sign of it. Got any news for us?
There are currently no listening squawks in Scotland.
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fisbangwallop on 17th August 2011:
I understand Glasgow plan to bring out an SSR monitoring code in the not too distant future for traffic not requiring any form of ATC service and flying close to their airspace.
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Way back in 1983 I made my first gliding flight at Wycombe. Which is slap bang against and under the Heathrow zone. It was the instructor who had to carry the can did we infringe, until I went solo 3 months later.
The following spring, made my Silver 50 kilomter distance flights, carefully plotting my proposed track on the half mil, and steering by motorways, railways, quarries, towns, racetracks, etc. Using farmer's stubble fires (since outlawed) to find lift. Then the usual excursion round Bicester/Didcot, using that last wammo thermal over the power station chimney. Smelled terrible, but climb rate was phenomenal.
Since then done a fair amount of flying in gliding competition, to say nothing of flying the tug, retrieving gliders from other airfields, etc. No magenta magic lines to follow, no computer kindly reminding us to stay below the base of the airway. Those were the days! I did get in trouble once for drifting over Marlow, noticed by the observer patrolling the airspace limits before the start. Maximum points deducted. And in the Interservices Regional, a freefalling parachute instructor not far from Hullavingdon was close enough to read my number! Lost ALL my points, and got told off in front of the entire congregation.
Now all is recorded on the dataloggers. I do not understand the mysterious ways of navigating by computer, and as I now have to fly with a safety pilot who bears all responsibility, don't have to worry about it either! These days, if a competitor is caught with a 50 foot excursion flagged up on the logger, there follows penalties, points deducted, tea and biscuits with the director, and if it happens too flagrantly dismissed altogether from the competition.
The following spring, made my Silver 50 kilomter distance flights, carefully plotting my proposed track on the half mil, and steering by motorways, railways, quarries, towns, racetracks, etc. Using farmer's stubble fires (since outlawed) to find lift. Then the usual excursion round Bicester/Didcot, using that last wammo thermal over the power station chimney. Smelled terrible, but climb rate was phenomenal.
Since then done a fair amount of flying in gliding competition, to say nothing of flying the tug, retrieving gliders from other airfields, etc. No magenta magic lines to follow, no computer kindly reminding us to stay below the base of the airway. Those were the days! I did get in trouble once for drifting over Marlow, noticed by the observer patrolling the airspace limits before the start. Maximum points deducted. And in the Interservices Regional, a freefalling parachute instructor not far from Hullavingdon was close enough to read my number! Lost ALL my points, and got told off in front of the entire congregation.
Now all is recorded on the dataloggers. I do not understand the mysterious ways of navigating by computer, and as I now have to fly with a safety pilot who bears all responsibility, don't have to worry about it either! These days, if a competitor is caught with a 50 foot excursion flagged up on the logger, there follows penalties, points deducted, tea and biscuits with the director, and if it happens too flagrantly dismissed altogether from the competition.
