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Ryan B wrote:

Bidimus wrote:Thanks guys. I had no idea that IRL aircraft were radar identifiable without a transponder.

This is not what SCT (socal tracon) sees as they use much better stuff than we have... but we have an ASR 8 at work and the circled items are primary targets... and there's methods to identify and provide radar advisories to these aircraft.

So if you're flying along and your xpndr is OFF the controller will see something like this on their scope (the newer scopes are STARS and the targets will be blue instead of green)