In 1989 I cleaned up the results of a glider mid air the wings of one of the
aircraft came off.

The fuselage was gone the biggest part we could recognise was one side of
the battery.

Any ELT would have been pulverised.

Even if I end up in a tree the ELT is still with me as I attach it to my
parachute strap.

Australia is remote place I take my ELT 4WDing, country driving, gliding,
flying, skiing and hiking.

Its the one thing I own that I hope I never have to use.

Mal

"Eric Greenwell" wrote in message
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MKEENE221 wrote:

Glider pilots in contest carry parachutes so in most cases I can think
of it would be better to have the ELT with the pilot. Is there a reason
this is not allowed in contest flying?



It's probably because the ELT that's carried in a parachute won't
activate on
impact like the one mounted in the aircraft. If an aircraft crashes and
the
pilot is incapacitated, can't reach to activate it or worse yet, dead, he
might
as well not even have one. The ideal situation would be to have one
mounted in
the glider and one carried in the parachute.

My imprecise recollection is pilots that parachute out are generally found
a lot quicker than pilots that crash, probably because they survive and
use the radio, cell phone, etc. For this reason, I decided a mounted ELT
would do me, my wife, and search personnel more good than a personal one.

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Eric Greenwell
Washington State
USA