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The military carve outs for this need to be considered. I realize the desire to prevent accidents like the one that is motivating this, but I live near Fort McC
by nickysielicki 1y ago
The military carve outs for this need to be considered. I realize the desire to prevent accidents like the one that is motivating this, but I live near Fort McCoy and I run an adsb feeder. I hear jets training every day over my head, but they never have their transponders on. This is a good thing as far as I’m concerned, I don’t want to ever be accused of providing our enemies with data on the flight maneuvers they are practicing. I just like seeing the crop dusters do their thing on the map.
- cmurf 1y agoI disagree. There’s significant amounts of airspace set aside for military use. They can turn off the transponder there. When operating in congested terminal area airspace they need to follow the same rules general aviation, air taxi and airlines follow. They aren’t performing unique maneuvers in these areas. It’s particularly important for low flying aircraft to have transponder enabled, sometimes referred to as secondary radar. It’s more effective than primary radar, which has limited low altitude coverage. And only ATC can track a target by primary radar.