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Originally Posted by matteo  so how should we teach our students to operate transponders? a couple of us at my flight school have difference of opinions. some say we should leave them on alt all the time, out of sight, out of mind so you wont forget to switch to alt... some say that's a bad habit and you can forget to squawk the right code if you always leave it on alt?
any thoughts? |
sure . . .to those who believe that leaving the transponder on all the time to avoid forgetting it (even though it's on the checklist) I would submit that you should leave your strobes and landing lights on all the time as well, along with keeping the mixture in a rich setting. These all occur at the same time, at the same point in the checklist. If they forget to do the alt setting, they are not reading the checklist prior to takeoff and may miss these items also.
If this works logically then you have your answer.
respectfully submitted,
Dale