AIRCRAFT SHOWING RANDOM SQUAWK CODES

[hungerford1]

hi, ive currently have an aircraft in the stevenage area miscoding '000000' with 'gsout' in the callsign box but the weird thing is it's generating random squawk codes at the moment it has used 0725,0420,0767 and 0712 at the moment any ideas why it's creating random squawk codes.

[Runway 31]

Possibly a duff transponder.  Its an RV-8 which should use hex 404DF5

Alan

[hungerford1]

thought it might be, its been on and off my screen for about 3 hours now. at one point it showed 7000ft so wasn't sure if it was the rv8.

[Runway 31]

The altitude is well within its service ceiling of 22,500 ft (6,858 m)

Alan

[hungerford1]

i now have hex code '000000' showing 'MLWSA' with random squawk codes and its been on and of my screen for the last 2 1/2 hours. does anyone else have this aircraft showing.

[hungerford1]

hex '000000' 'mlwsa' still showing on screen currently showing 16000ft. can't think of a reason why this global express would be show  for 5hours or more unless its doing survey or surveillance work? and its not really m-lwsa?.

[Runway 31]

Maybe its stuck on your system.  Try unticking and ticking process hardware flights

Alan