Dan77 wrote: * | Fri Dec 25, 2020 10:39 pm |
New to me since the update is the message by departure right after initial contact was established: "Lufthansa 832 Squawk Ident QNH 1023". I´ve never heard that before the update to version 3.10.
The "squawk ident" is new phraseology introduced in 3.10, and replaces "radar contact" when you are in non-FAA areas and make initial contact with Departure. This and some other phraseology changes were made on the recommendation of a RW air traffic controller on the team. The squawk ident call (by itself) does not indicate a problem with your transponder or squawk code, and does not require that you do anything.
Indeed this brings some light on it. The issue is, that my MCE FO takes immediate action to update the seemed new given squawk, because the phrase is "understood" that he has to. I´ve got already a reply from Gerald from MCE that he is aware that he needs some reconfiguration within MCE, that those kind of new phraseology will be handeled appropriately. He confirmed that the Squawk is erased by the FO because of that particular phrase. At least i´am happy to know the rootcause and that it is nothing else even worse. I´am sure that Gerald will come out with a fix quite short, as usual. Because i can easily let my FO set the squawk correct again, it´s not a big deal.
Anyway, Merry Christmas, Dan