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OK all fixed. it was the PAUSE scan mode had been activated. This causes the scanner to resume scanning after a set period even if a signal is present.

Not sure of his name, but he's been there a long time.  I remember hearing him as far back as the late 1990s!

It is used in the process of one of the secondary ways to radar identify an aircraft.  Also, when ATC deems that the secondary is not necessary upon the aircraft getting within 15 nm from destination airport, they may instruct to turn off the transponder.  Also during certain phenomena such as ring around, ATC may instruct the pilot to turn off the transponder to reduce ring around or if there is a high population of actual targets (aircraft) to reduce scope clutter.

100% WRONG, in 30 years ive never ask to have a TXP turned off because i didnt think i needed the secondary target.do you even know what happens to an ARTS/STARS data block when the TXP is turned off ?...IT DROPS OFF AFTER 3 SWEEPS WITH WITH OUT A TXP SIGINAL

You've never flown to Oshkosh or Sun N' Fun, Have you?

Most times when a controller says "say intentions" to me, it's on approach to the traffic pattern at an airport and they want to know if we'll be landing, low approach, or touch-and-go's. In the context of an accident, they would be asking for what the pilot intends to do, because the controller's job becomes that of getting people out of the way of the emergency aircraft, and getting emergency services to the aircraft.

They are plain MP3 files...do you see the link to the audio file?  Your iPhone should just launch its MP3 player and play them without issue.

IT SAYS THE SERVER IS NOT CONFIGURED CORRECTLY CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT I NEED TO PLAY ON MY IPHONE

I can't seem to play the clips I have an iPhone is there a specfic app I need to listen

very good videos!

wow....didnt realize this was at night.

I can only imagine the tension in that cockpit and the rush when they got that first engine lit back up still knowing
that any instant it could still be over.

I think I'll set this up on MS Flight Sim and see what it must have been like and
how many times I would have bounced off the ground and the hills.

Wonder just how close they came to hitting something?

Appears I inadvertently have a priority set. Will deactivate this around 07/0900Z.