Friday, September 7, 2012

AIM 2013 Updates


The new FAR/AIM 2013 has been published. There are not a lot of changes but one caught my eye. A slight update to 4-1-20, Transponder Operations and in particular paragraph 3. The change states that the transponder should be turned "on or normal altitude reporting position prior to moving on the airport surface". The interesting thing about this is that the G1000 doesn't go into altitude reporting position until the aircraft is airborne. I wonder how this will change the procedures for G1000 equipped planes. Should the transponder be set to ALT as part of the taxi checklist? Will Garmin update its G1000 to change the default behavior of the transponder?
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  1. PattiSeptember 7, 2012 at 3:55 PM

    That's a good point. I think they will probably determine that "Ground" mode is a "normal altitude reporting position" for the G1000 since in this position the transponder automatically switches to Altitude at an airspeed of 30 knots.

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  2. Robert KleinSeptember 13, 2012 at 7:36 AM

    I think you just need to taxi at >30 knots :)

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