Thanks, Nigel. I've been off work for a couple of weeks so haven't even seen the tower structure yet.
Are you aware of any plan to fit ground vehicles with some sort of transponder? Where advanced SMRs have been installed overseas (and at YMML), they're now directing us to select our transponders to 'auto' prior to pushback, which we do anyway. I believe this enables Mode S capabilites (where fitted), but our manuals really don't cover this too well.
I assume the surface movement controller manually 'tags' the SMR returns under the current system.
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