Use of 121.5 ELTs to be illegal in U.S. in about 60 days.

Jim Logajan wrote:
Within 60 days of being published in the Federal Registry, use of 121.5
MHz ELTs will be forbidden by a re-write and re-title of
47 CFR section 87.195:

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_publi...C-10-103A1.pdf

"The manufacture, importation, sale or use of 121.5 MHz ELTs is prohibited."

The original text of 47 CFR section 87.195 may be read he

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-...998&TYP E=PDF

Two issues:
1) There are ELTs that support both 121.5 and 406 MHz, yet the
one-sentence regulation doesn't acknowledge their existence, so it can
be interpreted to mean their use too is prohibited.

2) There are going to be a lot of seriously annoyed and ****ed owners of
"older" equipment.

Yep, this was proposed in 2006 and nobody involved seemed to notice.

What most likely will happen is the FCC will go ahead with the ban on the
certification, manufacture, importation, or sale of such ELTs and delay
the ban on use to some future data, which will likely be the same date the
FAA eventually mandates everyone get a 406 MHz ELT.


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Jim Pennino

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