"Scottish Info" to get its own Squawk in 2008

The London Info Squawk experience must be getting positive results – it’s going north of the border soon (the FIR border, of course).

It doesn’t start yet, but from sometime in the early part of 2008, (date announced in a January AIC), a FIS off ‘Scottish’ will in many cases result in an assigned squawk of 7401 (C). It’s all in the interests of reducing the numbers and/or severity of airspace infringements.

Usual caveats apply:

You are not getting a radar service, you are not allowed to go anywhere or do anything you couldn’t before.
You must not ‘decide’ to set it yourself , you are told when to use it, it’s not a ‘listening squawk’
You must stop using it when you no longer have a service from Scottish. (Radio failure, agreed/informed change of frequency, etc)
PLEASE use Mode C with it, if you can, even if they don’t mention the charlie bit, they want it! In fact, use Mode C as the default with ANY code, including 7000.

As usual you can ‘read all about it’ on flyontrack hot news – http://www.flyontrack.co.uk and even read the memo going out to flying clubs, rental places, etc from ‘Scottish’ by clicking on the parrot – you’ll see what I mean.