ms. mary schiavo and talk about the transponders. as we know on 911 ten the highjackers on all three planes, one of the first things they did was turn off the trance ponder. and i'm told by the experts on a legitimate flight a pilot has no need whatsoever to turn off transponders so why haven't the aviation industry and the security people got together after 9/11 and said, let's take the on/off switch out of all commercial planes, but we will leave in the sos switch on the transponder, but the on/off switch will be totally taken out. why wasn't that done? guest: boy, you have hit the nail on the head. not only will they not do that, but this gentleman obviously knows flying but the american public is shocked to learn that you are not required to have a transponder at all to fly around the united states of america and a great november aviation planes don't have one. you don't have to turn one on or unless you're going into a controlled air space and landing at certain airports. the big passenger service airports, you can fly around an

ms. mary schiavo and talk about the transponders.s we know on 911 ten the highjackers on all three planes, one of the first things they did was turn off the trance ponder. and i'm told by the experts on a legitimate flight a pilot has no need whatsoever to turn off transponders so why haven't the aviation industry and the security people got together after 9/11 and said let's take the on/off switch out of all commercial planes, but we will leave in the sos switch on the transponder, but the on/off switch will be totally taken out. why wasn't that done? guest: boy, you have hit the nail on the head. not only will they not do that, but this gentleman obviously knows flying but the american public is shocked to learn that you are not required to have a transponder at all to fly around the united states of america and a great november aviation planes don't have one. you don't have to turn one on or unless you're going into a controlled air space and landing at certain airports. the big passenger service airports, you can fly around and b