Duress

[Bill Frantz]

At  2:14 PM 3/4/96 -0500, jf_avon at citenet.net (Jean-Francois Avon (JFA
Technologies, QC, wrote:
>The transponder analogy might not be very accurate.
>
>When you fly in a controled airspace, the *controller* asks you to 
>dial in certain digits on the transponder.

The analogy may be reaching its elastic limit although you can use those
transponder codes when flying VFR, not in radio contact.  What I really
wanted to suggest is that we try to design (when we can) to minimize the
possibility of bad things happening to people who use duress codes.

Regards - Bill


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