John T wrote:

Both aircraft had functioning
radios and the initial instruction from the Blackhawk was to tune to 121.5.
However, there was other traffic (I've never understood exactly what, but
the consensus is it was an ELT) on that frequency that prevented its use.
More valuable time was lost trying to figure out a) a new frequency and b)
how to communicate that to the errant 150.

Was the ELT in either the Blackhawk or in the C-150?

Must have been a real _strong_ ELT to have disabled the freq for two
aircraft that were relatively close to one another.


Jack