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Air Traffic Monitoring => Listener Forum => Topic started by: PHL Approach on November 06, 2005, 12:34:49 AM

Title: Newest airports to recieve ASDE-X
Post by: PHL Approach on November 06, 2005, 12:34:49 AM

Released a few days ago: This is much needed relief for BOS and JFK

http://www.faa.gov/apa/pr/pr.cfm?id=1981

Title: Newest airports to recieve ASDE-X
Post by: Jason on November 06, 2005, 07:57:49 AM

Thanks for the link, Ed.  Nice to know that the technology is available and is being installed.

Was interesting seeing some of the airprots taht already had it operational, such as PVD.

Title: Newest airports to recieve ASDE-X
Post by: nfredrich on November 06, 2005, 10:26:42 PM

Milwaukee already has this system in place. A transponder is required to be on and mode C for all aircraft on the ground... in addition to all ground equipment such as fire trucks ect.

If you remember the program called AFCAD. The display looks similar to that. it has a ground layout of the airport, and the aircraft are identified by their callsign if they were assigned a squawk code. or they show up as unknown. ground vehicle have a pre-set transponder to identify the type of the vehicle