BE VERY CAREFUL.
If you own a sailplane with a STANDARD AIRWORTHINESS CERTIFICATE, and
you choose to install an ELT, it must be one that is TSO'd and the
installation must be done in accordance with an STC or a FAA field
approval.

I have seen and heard about many pilots who have purchased these units
from their favorite vendor and stuck it in their glider. If you do
not do a legal installation, you may be putting your insurance coverage
in jepardy.

If the contest committe would abolish the pst and tat and go back to
real glider racing ie AST, the hysteria about installing ELTs would go
away. We would narrow the search pattern for lost pilots and in most
cases increase the odds of having witnessed losses. This would be REAL
safety reform.

I do believe that installing ELTs in gliders that are flown cross
country in general is good and a responsible thing to do. I find it
ironic that years ago the SSA went to bat for the "good of soaring
pilots in the US" and lobbied the FAA for and exemption to the ELT
rule.

I quess I should probably shut up and lick my chops in anticipation of
all the ELT sales that I am about to be flooded with.

(sigh)

Rex Mayes
Williams Soaring Center