Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:06 pm
#1699426
It happened to me for the first time this weekend, that I got an IFR clearance including the squawk 1000 for a flight from Cannes to Calais.
1000 is a special squawk in that it means that ATC units use your Mode S Flight ID to associate your radar return with your flight plan - rather than a more conventional unique numerical squawk.
The allocation of a 1000 squawk for flights remaining in Europe seems to be becoming increasingly common - and yet, it never happens (it seems to me) if either the origin or destination is the UK.
Do any of our ATCers know why that should be? Is it as simple as the UK ATC computers aren't able to use a Mode S return to connect the blob on the screen to the flight plan?
1000 is a special squawk in that it means that ATC units use your Mode S Flight ID to associate your radar return with your flight plan - rather than a more conventional unique numerical squawk.
The allocation of a 1000 squawk for flights remaining in Europe seems to be becoming increasingly common - and yet, it never happens (it seems to me) if either the origin or destination is the UK.
Do any of our ATCers know why that should be? Is it as simple as the UK ATC computers aren't able to use a Mode S return to connect the blob on the screen to the flight plan?
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