[dba-Tech] Downed planes and Black-box technology

Arthur Fuller fuller.artful at gmail.com
Fri Jan 9 08:20:30 CST 2015


Jon,

Given that my understanding is limited, I think that a transponder only
acts (responds) in as a consequence of receiving a request; in other words
it's not active all the time, whereas a GPS is always active.

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Tydda Jon - Lonza Slough <
jon.tydda at lonza.com> wrote:

> Forgive me if this is a silly question, but what is the transponder for,
> if not identifying and locating the aircraft?
>
>
> Jon


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