The new season begins with a change of procedures in TMZ (Transponder Mandandory Zone) areas. According to the previous regulation, a transponder had to be carried along and coded on code 7000.

A new addition is the radio readiness on radio. According to information from the Federal Committee on Lower Airspace (BAUL) this radio capability is to be signaled with a corresponding Squawk code. These will be published in the DFS ICAO aeronautical charts available from March. The expansions of the individual TMZs remain unchanged.

In practice, this does not mean the release of the corresponding transponder code and monitoring on the published "Listening Squawk" frequency. It is hoped that this will improve the safety of the air because, in case of doubt, a pilot can quickly make contact with the pilot. There were also problems in the past that the Squawk codes were still "tagged" for several days, because after logging out of FIS no code 7000 was saved and / or the following pilots did not check your transponders.

How SD will handle these Thematik? ..as like the FIS Frequency in the terrain-data? 

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We have had Listening Squawks in the UK for some time. They are handled like FIS frequencies in SkyDemon.

I do not know what date you are expecting to see these appear in Germany, but we have already created the charts valid 2nd March and no changes indicating the introduction of listening squawks have been observed. Perhaps they are coming later in the month.

We will deal with that AIRAC change sometime between the 2nd March and its effective date, in that case.

We have incorporated all airspace changes into our Germany chart due for release this Thursday, just as we do every 28 days.

The new transponder codes are not currently part of the AIP, so it is likely that our chart on Thursday will not include the codes. Moreover, the software itself isn't currently designed to recognise transponder codes attached to TMZs as these are the first in Europe. We are in discussions wit‌‌h DFS about how best to incorporate the codes, as they are currently part of the proprietary Eisenschmidt charts for Germany only. I'm sure it won't be long before a good resolution is found though; we may even be working with DFS at Aero Friedrichshafen.

Great to hear and thx for the fast reply!
Good to know we will see an reminder for the freq and the squawk soon since they are different at all places 🙄
Best, Björn

The implementation of this recommendation is envisaged for the 30 MAR 2017--these arrived today. All TMZs defined in Germany (see example below) are then displayed on the ICAO card 1: 500,000 appearing at the same time with the specific transponder code and the associated "monitor frequency".

– Dortmund
– Friedrichshafen
– Hahn
– Hamburg (Anbindung an FL 100)– Hannover (Anbindung an FL 100)– Luxemburg
– Memmingen
– Münster-Osnabrück
– Niederrhein
– Nürnberg (Anbindung an FL 100)– Paderborn
– Saarbrücken


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Unfortunately this was not incorporated in the latest (todays) chart update of skydemon...
I think in UK you hav‌e an similar airspace?

Cheers,
 Oliver‌‌‌

Sorry, I just read Tim's latest reply - thus we are waiting...

Unfortunately‌‌ I could not update my previous post as the "Update" button has no effect on OSX (10.4.3) with firefox

This morning we released a new German chart which includes the squawks and monitoring frequencies for all the German TMZs. This works with current public version of SkyDemon.

In the next software version, we have introduced enhanced support for the new German TMZs too:

1. The PLOG is aware of TMZs and will display their squawk and frequency in the list of frequencies
2. If TMZ navigation warnings are turned on, when approaching a TMZ you'll see "Squawk XXXX, Monitor YYY.YYY‌‌" as part of the warning
3. The What's Here menu provides quick access to both the s‌quawk and frequency at any time

We do not plan to permanently display the information on our chart, as it's always been our policy not to include radio information on the chart all the time. You simply have to long-press to se‌‌e extra information like this.