doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) (01/14/86)
According to AOPA Pilot magazine, as of last December 2 a new FAA
regulation requires anyone with an operable transponder to have it
running whenever they are airborne in controlled airspace. Ditto for
altitude encoders.
The FAA seems to have forgotten to tell me about this, although they
did send a number of notices over the last few months, including
recommended procedures for practice ILS's at Casa Grande, and one
listing a number of errors on the current Phoenix sectional chart.
The current FAA administration must be setting new records for the
number of restrictions and requirements that they've implemented
-- and are trying to implement -- without ever showing need,
effectiveness, nor practicality.
I suppose, though, that it would be difficult to police the wonderful
new ARSAs if they had to rely solely on primary returns to detect
violators :-(
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Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {hardy,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!dougark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) (01/18/86)
> The FAA seems to have forgotten to tell me about this, although they > did send a number of notices over the last few months, including > recommended procedures for practice ILS's at Casa Grande, and one > listing a number of errors on the current Phoenix sectional chart. The FAA doesn't have to tell you about new regulations; it's your business to find out about them, either by reading the Federal Register, or by subscribing to the regs themselves or something.
doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) (01/20/86)
> The FAA doesn't have to tell you about new regulations; it's your > business to find out about them, either by reading the Federal > Register, or by subscribing to the regs themselves or something. True from a legal standpoint, but not from a practical one. A person could spend all of his waking hours reading the Federal Register. The FAA went to the trouble to mail out notices to all pilots in the area, letting them know that the Phoenix Sectional is in error because it still shows the Phoenix FSS as the controlling FSS for a number of Navaids (the PHX FSS is permanently closed). But they couldn't be bothered to add that this new regulation (and the shoulder harness reg) were going into effect. I also note that the new reg went into effect with uncommon swiftness after adoption. Usually there is plenty of time for the national magazines to warn that a new reg has been adopted, effective soon. This time, they were effective "last month". I suspect I'm not the only one caught unawares, since there was no mention here on the net... -- Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {hardy,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug