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FAA Transponder Requirements Explained

Pilot Institute

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has rules to keep air travel safe, and one big part of that is making sure airplanes have the right transponders. Transponders are an important part of an aircraft’s avionics system and help with tracking and safety. Key Takeaways Transponders aid ATC, safety, and tracking.

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Game On!

Plane and Pilot

The school also offers spin endorsements, upset recovery, aerobatic training, and hourly instruction if youre just itching to check the GameBird off your airplane bucket list. The Sbach, a notoriously difficult airplane to fly, challenges even the hardest of hard-core aerobatic pilots. The four-blade MT propeller is the only exception.

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“Stearman Mike” A Midwest Warbird Pilot’s Dedication to Keeping a Famous Trainer Flying

Vintage Aviation News

Copyright 2012 koepnickphotography.com Growing up, Andy Porter always had some sort of airplane. Here are six airplanes. The airplane had been totally rebuilt from the ground up. Transponders, ADS-B, radios, ELTs, all of these items are necessary to ensure pilot safety. Here’s what I can pay you a week.

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Girls, Girls, Girls

AV Web

Some of them seem funny to us now, like the fact that most of our airplanes had no radios or, God forbid, transponders and ELTs, while other facets of the 1970s are tragic. I began my flying life in the early 1970s. Saying that things were different back then would be a major understatement.

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CEO Of The Cockpit: The Good Old Days

AV Web

The day of having random groups of ramp tramps loitering for hours and days at the local airport has passed with the coming of barb-wired fencing, unfriendly FBOs, and snooty airplane owners. Yep, old airplanes like this flown in the old way are the best. People used to smoke a lot in airplanes. He went on.

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How to set up aircraft equipment codes in aviation apps to file VFR/IFR flight plans

iPad Pilot News

requests detailed information about your airplane’s navigation, communication, surveillance (transponder) and survival equipment. Here, we will look at the information needed and some sample airplane configurations to help make this initial setup easier.

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Pilot’s guide to the iPad connected panel

iPad Pilot News

This technology has grown significantly since then and is incorporated into nearly all retrofit avionics and in every new airplane coming off the line. The company has also developed a certified ADS-B Out transponder that integrates with existing Stratus 3, 2, 1S and 2S.