Stuck mic on MAN frequency yesterday
 

Thank you to the crew with a stuck mic on Man frequency yesterday morning for the interesting in-flight conversation. It helped uplift what would of been a boring sector.

P.S. Did you finally manage to remember what the squawk code was for a radio failure?

7600- loss of comms, 7700 emergency (non-specific), 7500 Hijack.

C'mon you guys should know that! Come to think of it why should Engineers know!?

Look here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transponder_code

7800 - transponder broken

Ok - that made me laugh!

N-S-R

re our PS

To quote the man “You cannot be serious!” :confused:

bet they never found those C.B.s did they?!?

Would any curruptable ATCO at MAN care to release a tape for those of us that missed it ?? No ? okay then, worth a try !

"Over the Years", at Manch
We have had:-
A "very" senior captain giving a pax brief during the taxi from gate 29, to the hold 24.
A "Groundops" guy telling his oppo that he didn't "F" know what snow was. [I was in ATC mobile, "Apron" got there first...... "Oy, yer F*kin mikes' stuck!"....."Ahhh, shoot"] :ok: It was a "barrel mike, and the tx key was the "wrong wat 'round"
Also a guy "tried" to input his Slot time as his transponder.... then tried to fly "non txponder"
I haven't got a tape long enuff.....:ok:
watp,iktch

What do you squawk for transponder failure?

Part of the conversation was something along the lines of:
"Whats the code for radio failure again?"

N-S-R you should have been closer to home, I had a stuck Mike yesterday blocked my frequency twice, second time for over 5 minutes, with the Pilot exclaiming how he "couldn't bloody hear anything now" Shame we could, the culprit also bust the Zone, don't you just love them :ooh:

L337, you maka da joke, but that is an ATPL exam question.......and the answer?

0000

If Mode C is unreliable, and you can't deselect it, yes; if the actual transponder is broken, 7800 ought to be the international standard - works for me, anyway!

Once couldn't read my own notes when reading back dep clearance - announced "Confirm squawk 7296?", and got the reply: "Well, it wouldn't be, would it?"

Took me a few seconds to work out why :\

Some guy had a stuck mic in Brest FIR yesterday for ages.

A Topjet chap valiantly tried to get Brest to take account of it but to no avail.

0000

Get outa here!

ROFLMAO

Please can somebody explain to me how you put 8 into a transponder and how it is recognised by the ground station. I thought all transponding equipment worked using the octal code, therefore nothing higher than a 7 could be entered and recognised. Also the only way of knowing that you had a transponder failure would be when you are told so by a controller. Then you would be told to squawk 0000 or switch it off. If it only the mode c which is innacurate and independant switching of mode a and c is available then just the mode c can be switched off. I do not think that 7800 is recognised in any books as transponder failure.

oh dear. Irony lost on some.

The issue of stuck transmit keys can be mitigated by the fitting of "Contran" which automatically deselects the transmitter after (I think) 30 secs.

This system also prevents crossed transmissions by inhibiting your ability to transmit should you begin to key the transmit button and another station is transmitting.

I believe Britannia have this system fitted to most of their fleet and it is arguably true that if the aircraft at Tenerife had been fitted with such a system the worlds worst air disaster might not have happened.

7888 is for visible contrail above FL390

Check 6

:E :E :E

I don't think 0000 would be a good one in the States, something to do with target practice I believe!