Ravioli
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Saturday morning I called up for flight following and a practice approach to KXYZ.
Departure said: Squawk 4646 and ident
Well... the 4 button on my xponder didn't work. WTF? Tried again... no joy.
Departure, Bug Destroyer 666 unable 4646, can I have a different code?
Negative BD666, all of our local codes start with 4.
ARGH.
So he quite nicely let us stay on 1200 using the ADSB signature and cleared us for the Bravo and approved the practice approach. All was good.
I called about the flat repair from Garmin for a GTX327. $700 and a few weeks. Double ARGH!
I found a GTX on my field (not literally) for $600. Bought it. Slid it in. Seemed okay. I'm testing all the numbers and the 8 and 9 didn't seem to work. WTF. I went from one bad digit to 2 bad digits? Somethings wrong.
I called @AggieMike88. He knows him some stuffs, I'll tell ya. He managed not to call me an idiot while reminding me that the codes use 0-7 (some kind of math thing) and the 8 and 9 are there for two reasons: Confuse me, and entering tail numbers and the like.
Anyway, everything is working, and a halfway funny story to boot.
Thanks Mike!
Departure said: Squawk 4646 and ident
Well... the 4 button on my xponder didn't work. WTF? Tried again... no joy.
Departure, Bug Destroyer 666 unable 4646, can I have a different code?
Negative BD666, all of our local codes start with 4.
ARGH.
So he quite nicely let us stay on 1200 using the ADSB signature and cleared us for the Bravo and approved the practice approach. All was good.
I called about the flat repair from Garmin for a GTX327. $700 and a few weeks. Double ARGH!
I found a GTX on my field (not literally) for $600. Bought it. Slid it in. Seemed okay. I'm testing all the numbers and the 8 and 9 didn't seem to work. WTF. I went from one bad digit to 2 bad digits? Somethings wrong.
I called @AggieMike88. He knows him some stuffs, I'll tell ya. He managed not to call me an idiot while reminding me that the codes use 0-7 (some kind of math thing) and the 8 and 9 are there for two reasons: Confuse me, and entering tail numbers and the like.
Anyway, everything is working, and a halfway funny story to boot.
Thanks Mike!