Fri, Mar 28, 2003
DoD, Customs Oppose Full-Scale Rollout
The FAA will conduct a larger-scale test of an
AOPA suggestion to simplify flight training and air traffic control
workload in the Washington, D.C., and New York City air defense
identification zones (ADIZ). The agency has issued two NOTAMs
(3/2468 and 3/2469) allowing
pilots operating at all towered airports in the ADIZ areas to use a
discrete transponder code, 1234, for closed traffic pattern
operations without filing a flight plan. The test period runs from
0600 local on Saturday, March 29, until 2000 local on Sunday, March
30.
The NOTAMs are the direct result of a successful FAA
test that occurred during this past weekend at three
towered airports each in the Washington and New York ADIZ areas,
using AOPA's suggestion of a discrete squawk code.
AOPA and the FAA had hoped to permit use of the 1234 code at
both towered and nontowered airports in the ADIZ areas, but the
Department of Defense and U.S. Customs Service, which are
responsible for patrolling the areas, balked at the
idea of operations at nontowered airports. "While this is
better than nothing, we still need better operational procedures on
a broader scale," said AOPA Senior Vice President of Government and
Technical Affairs Andy Cebula.
Under the new NOTAM, closed pattern operations at towered
airports within the ADIZ will not require a flight plan. Pilots
will make their request for closed pattern work prior to taxiing
and will squawk 1234 continuously.
Pilots are reminded that prior to exiting the traffic pattern
and conducting other flight operations within the ADIZ, a flight
plan must be filed with an AFSS, pilots must obtain and
continuously transmit an ATC-assigned discrete transponder code,
and two-way communications must be established prior to ADIZ
penetration.
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