Comments on: Time to waste? Schedule a transponder inspection. http://rv9a.pacificrimsound.com/?p=3545 Into the sky, one piece at a time... Sat, 27 Jun 2026 11:04:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Bob Collins http://rv9a.pacificrimsound.com/?p=3545&cpage=1#comment-37925 Bob Collins Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:00:45 +0000 http://rv9a.pacificrimsound.com/?p=3545#comment-37925 Stein charges about $100 for a VFR transponder check. There is a traveling charge -- $30, I think. Mike Hilger can knock it off in about 20 minutes. The ground-run time is an interesting beast; it's particular to Minneapolis MIDO. There's a lot of "wink wink" going on here between what RVers are told and what the people telling them mean. I was fully prepared to comply with the "off the record" meaning conveyed via other parties, but then I ran into the static RPM problem on my plane, so I ended up with the ground-run time anyway. I mean to bring all of this up to Mark Giron, the FAA safety inspector, at the little gathering we had in homebuilt camping at Oshkosh last Wednesday but time got away from us. It's a good example, though, of the lack of a cohesive and coherent policy. Stein charges about $100 for a VFR transponder check. There is a traveling charge — $30, I think. Mike Hilger can knock it off in about 20 minutes.

The ground-run time is an interesting beast; it’s particular to Minneapolis MIDO. There’s a lot of “wink wink” going on here between what RVers are told and what the people telling them mean.

I was fully prepared to comply with the “off the record” meaning conveyed via other parties, but then I ran into the static RPM problem on my plane, so I ended up with the ground-run time anyway.

I mean to bring all of this up to Mark Giron, the FAA safety inspector, at the little gathering we had in homebuilt camping at Oshkosh last Wednesday but time got away from us. It’s a good example, though, of the lack of a cohesive and coherent policy.

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