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Ian Cant wrote:
Could not agree more about the desirability of good location aids. Although the personal locator beacon has the disadvantage of needing manual activation [which in some situations might not be possible] it also has the advantage that it can be activated in advance - for instance, when facing a certain landing in dangerous terrain, it could be activated on final approach, ensuring a signal is sent out even if the landing is disastrous and the ELT fails to activate on impact. All ELT's have a manual activation switch, so they can also be activated by the pilot in the situation Ian describes. I hadn't thought about doing this with mine, but it sounds like a good idea. The post-landing checklist should have "Check ELT" on it, so the pilot would remember to deactivate after landing if it's not needed. -- Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA * Change "netto" to "net" to email me directly * "Transponders in Sailplanes" http://tinyurl.com/y739x4 * "A Guide to Self-launching Sailplane Operation" at www.motorglider.org |
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On Apr 21, 1:37 pm, Eric Greenwell wrote:
Ian Cant wrote: ...Although the personal locator beacon has the disadvantage of needing manual activation [which in some situations might not be possible] it also has the advantage that it can be activated in advance - for instance, when facing a certain landing in dangerous terrain, it could be activated on final approach, ensuring a signal is sent out even if the landing is disastrous and the ELT fails to activate on impact. All ELT's have a manual activation switch, so they can also be activated by the pilot in the situation Ian describes. I hadn't thought about doing this with mine, but it sounds like a good idea. The post-landing checklist should have "Check ELT" on it, so the pilot would remember to deactivate after landing if it's not needed. -- Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA * Change "netto" to "net" to email me directly * "Transponders in Sailplanes"http://tinyurl.com/y739x4 * "A Guide to Self-launching Sailplane Operation" atwww.motorglider.org The ELT normally has a three-position switch if it's switchable: "on" "arm" and "off" If you turn it "on" it continuously emits a distress call and beeps loudly. The distress call will activate search and rescue efforts, beginning with an attempt to discover whether it's a false alarm (since most ELT activations are inadvertent). While this act may seem like a safety measure, the side effects may overload the emergency response system if all us glider pilots start doing this for every landing. Rather, perhaps it should be routine to turn it "on" as the initial step in committing to an off-airport landing, turning it "off" after landing if all is OK. And Tom Knauf is right, a GPS-equipped 406mHz personal locator beacon is cheap life insurance, and less than the cost of the parachute to which it should be attached, which we also hope not to be needing. Dan Johnson |
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danlj wrote:
(some deletions) Ian Cant wrote: it also has the advantage that it can be activated in advance - for instance, when facing a certain landing in dangerous terrain, it could be activated on final approach, ensuring a signal is sent out even if the landing is disastrous and the ELT fails to activate on impact. The ELT normally has a three-position switch if it's switchable: "on" "arm" and "off" If you turn it "on" it continuously emits a distress call and beeps loudly. The distress call will activate search and rescue efforts, beginning with an attempt to discover whether it's a false alarm (since most ELT activations are inadvertent). While this act may seem like a safety measure, the side effects may overload the emergency response system if all us glider pilots start doing this for every landing. Rather, perhaps it should be routine to turn it "on" as the initial step in committing to an off-airport landing, turning it "off" after landing if all is OK. Both Ian and I agree with you, as Ian's comment makes clear the manual activation is for a potentially disastrous landing, not every landing. -- Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA * Change "netto" to "net" to email me directly * "Transponders in Sailplanes" http://tinyurl.com/y739x4 * "A Guide to Self-launching Sailplane Operation" at www.motorglider.org |
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On the survival kit thread can anyone tell me what items that Dale had
in his survival kit? What items did he use and need? What items does he feel he should have had with him? http://www.geocities.com/jhderosa/aviation/survival/ - John |
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