moosepileit
Well Known Member
Really- totally counter to the regs?
Google your N#....
Google your N#....
Larry, if you're based at a towered airport you're probably going to be given a discrete code on departure anyway, right? So how will you ever be anonymous? Even if you switch to 1200 once you're clear of the zone, the track for code XXXX will line up perfectly with the code for a 1200 aircraft that appeared out of nowhere and departed the area.Turning off my xponder is not an option (for me). I'm based at a towered airport; Class C airspace withing the veil of a Class B airport. Further, I'm not willing to give up the amount of airspace I'm currently free to fly in.
Heard back from uAvionics.
Your transponder MUST be transmitting 1200 code replies, seen by the Beacon product line to enter Anonymous mode.
That's exactly how you'll be followed. If the system ever broadcasts your ident on a flight, the entire track for that flight will be compromised.You can fly squawking 1200/Anonymous, get a discreet/non-1200 squawk, I used 1202 in testing- and the Skybeacon automatically reinserts your registered ICAO number and N#/Flight ID. As it must, per specs. When you exit control and squawk 1200 again I see instant return to the previous self-assigned ICAO code and "VFR" flight ID. I do not see how you would be followed save for inability to time travel or position shift.
Well guessing is always easy, AFTER the rest of the information is released.
I've been on both sides of the M and the A, and I would not recommend investing based on corporate jet visits. Sometimes (more often than not) it does not work out, and even when it does, you have no idea if it will be a good investment.
That said, I still believe we should be able to remain anonymous in the system.
Don't kid yourself; investors use that kind of intelligence gathering all the time, and use it to 'guess'. I witnessed it first hand in the early '90s, long before ADSB, when my stockbroker friend had me buying options on a tech company in my home town who's corp jet was visiting Bell Labs regularly at the time. It actually worked well enough for me to buy my 1st RV-4. (And then it didn't...)
Heard back from uAvionics.
Your transponder MUST be transmitting 1200 code replies, seen by the Beacon product line to enter Anonymous mode.
Not just having selected the ON/transmit position of your transponder control, but actually replying to ATC interrogations. There is a 60 second timeout that explains some of the results.
I keep wondering why someone hasn't come along and made an all-in-one 978 ADS-B solution that combines the Mode C and ADS-B functions, so you don't have to have separate boxes.
But if there's a transponder that can talk directly to the ADS-B unit and start immediately in anonymous mode, that might be the way to go.
Is it, while I?m flying VFR, I can?t see you on my traffic screen?
May I ask, what?s the purpose? If hiding from the FAA, we all know, if they need to, they can and will track you down. Is it, while I?m flying VFR, I can?t see you on my traffic screen?
Adding the anonymous switch, seems like a waste of time and money, just something else, to make something else go wrong. Just saying...
Post 205 sums it up.
I think you understand, but don't want to admit it. Why does your profile not list your actual state name?
Just as a FYI, if you can afford something with a turbine, you already have the 'privilege' (right) of hiding your N number from the public. Why should I not have the same rights?
May I ask, what?s the purpose? If hiding from the FAA, we all know, if they need to, they can and will track you down. Is it, while I?m flying VFR, I can?t see you on my traffic screen?
Adding the anonymous switch, seems like a waste of time and money, just something else, to make something else go wrong. Just saying...
The Freeflight Rangr series and Garmin GDL 88 and 82 UAT units do provide true anonymous mode. Unlike the UAvionix offerings both of these require a hardwire selection switch. There may be a warm up period on them prior anonymous but I am not sure.