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7700: ICAO: Emergency. [3] [7] 7701–7707 US: Reserved for special use by FAA. [3] 7710–7776 US: External ARTCC subset (block of discrete codes). [3] 7776 Europe The Mode A code 7776 is assigned as a test code by the ORCAM Users Group, specifically for the testing of transponders. [18] 7777 US, Germany, UK, Belgium, Netherlands
A pilot may be requested to squawk a given code by an air traffic controller, via the radio, using a phrase such as "Cessna 123AB, squawk 0363". The pilot then selects the 0363 code on their transponder and the track on the air traffic controller's radar screen will become correctly associated with their identity. [6] [7]
When the transponder receives an interrogation request, it broadcasts the configured transponder code (or "squawk code"). This is referred to as "Mode 3A" or more commonly, Mode A. A separate type of response called "Ident" can be initiated from the airplane by pressing a button on the transponder control panel.
IFF Mark X was the NATO standard military identification friend or foe transponder system from the early 1950s until it was slowly replaced by the IFF Mark XII in the 1970s. It was also adopted by ICAO , with some modifications, as the civilian air traffic control (ATC) secondary radar (SSR) transponder.
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SSR antenna of Deutsche Flugsicherung at Neubrandenburg, in Mecklenburg/Western Pomerania Transponder in a private aircraft squawking 2000. Secondary surveillance radar (SSR) [1] is a radar system used in air traffic control (ATC), that unlike primary radar systems that measure the bearing and distance of targets using the detected reflections of radio signals, relies on targets equipped with ...
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