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Steve Fossett missing?
CNN reports Steve Fossett is missing.
" Fossett took off from a private air strip known as Flying M Ranch, near Smith Valley, 30 miles south of Yerington, Nevada, on Monday, with enough fuel for four to five hours of flight, according to the Civil Air Patrol. Yerington is south of Carson City, near the California border." Let's hope for the best |
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Steve Fossett missing?
On Sep 5, 7:13 am, "Rob Turk" wrote:
CNN reports Steve Fossett is missing. " Fossett took off from a private air strip known as Flying M Ranch, near Smith Valley, 30 miles south of Yerington, Nevada, on Monday, with enough fuel for four to five hours of flight, according to the Civil Air Patrol. Yerington is south of Carson City, near the California border." Let's hope for the best Anyone know what he was flying? |
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Steve Fossett missing?
"JohnO" wrote in message
ups.com... On Sep 5, 7:13 am, "Rob Turk" wrote: CNN reports Steve Fossett is missing. " Fossett took off from a private air strip known as Flying M Ranch, near Smith Valley, 30 miles south of Yerington, Nevada, on Monday, with enough fuel for four to five hours of flight, according to the Civil Air Patrol. Yerington is south of Carson City, near the California border." Let's hope for the best Anyone know what he was flying? His blue and white Decathlon -- Geoff The Sea Hawk at Wow Way d0t Com remove spaces and make the obvious substitutions to reply by mail When immigration is outlawed, only outlaws will immigrate. |
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Steve Fossett missing?
"JohnO" wrote in message ups.com... On Sep 5, 7:13 am, "Rob Turk" wrote: CNN reports Steve Fossett is missing. " Fossett took off from a private air strip known as Flying M Ranch, near Smith Valley, 30 miles south of Yerington, Nevada, on Monday, with enough fuel for four to five hours of flight, according to the Civil Air Patrol. Yerington is south of Carson City, near the California border." Let's hope for the best Anyone know what he was flying? Citabria, according to AvWeb. A search of the area has been initiated. -- Jim in NC |
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Steve Fossett missing?
Fossett had a typical ELT that apparently did not turn on or was out
of range. I have a APRS tracker that continuously sends position/velocity info on the ham frequency. Worked very well so far and gives peace of mind to relatives - and useful to FAA on a flight plan. If Fosset had a continuous tracker, the job of finding him might have been a lot easier. You can build an APRS tracker for about $250. A basic ham license is easy to get. For more info http://www.abri.com/sq2000/GPStrack.html ------------------------------------------------ SQ2000 canard, http://www.abri.com/sq2000/ On Sep 4, 2:13 pm, "Rob Turk" wrote: CNN reports Steve Fossett is missing. " Fossett took off from a private air strip known as Flying M Ranch, near Smith Valley, 30 miles south of Yerington, Nevada, on Monday, with enough fuel for four to five hours of flight, according to the Civil Air Patrol. Yerington is south of Carson City, near the California border." Let's hope for the best |
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Steve Fossett missing?
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You can build an APRS tracker for about $250. A basic ham license is easy to get. For more info http://www.abri.com/sq2000/GPStrack.html http://www.abri.com/sq2000/APRSBasics.txt Interesting... Bring a Pilot to School Day: Can you explain how this works, like we're a class of 8th graders? We'll, 7th graders, really. See, 8th grade just started, but we're still reviewing from last year... Paul-Mont |
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Steve Fossett missing?
On Sep 5, 10:21 pm, wrote:
I have a APRS tracker that continuously sends position/velocity info on the ham frequency. This happens to be a topic near and dear to my uber-geeky heart. On the one hand we have ELTs, which *hopefully* kick off when a plane crashes. If it isn't damaged in the crash . . . if the batteries are still good . . . if the antenna leads stay attached . . . etc. On the other hand we have a system that is designed to tell you where the plane is at all times, and hey, if the guy doesn't come home--play back the recorded position data and go look in the area where the signal stopped. --Air-side cost . . . compared to an ELT, the things are quite reasonable. Compared to a 406 ELT, they're peanuts. --Ground-side cost . . . the ground side would need to get built--I would speculate that a receiver/recorder per ATC sector would do nicely. You could build the ground side for the entire nation for next to nothing (when measured by gov't standards). There are guys on this group, right now, that could design and deploy the whole ground side without even thinking hard. --Position data recording . . . compared to what a TIVO packs away, setting up a system to record, say, the last 72 hours worth of reported positions for airplanes in a given region is pretty darn approachable. Lat/Lon, speed & altitude. That is not a lot a data. Don't even record all of it, just record 5 minute intervals or similar. Get fancy and make the intervals speed-sensitive. It's just software on a PC, darn it. The amount of data is so small you could do this on the computer the average junior high kid threw away last week. --Traffic avoidance . . . not only could your little ground recorder get the signal, by golly other planes could too. Be a nice cheap way to have live traffic in the cockpit without the ADS-B expense, complexity and hassle. --No electrical system? Guys at my airport without starters and alternators are still using a little 12v batt for a radio. --This system is a bit similar to something commercial shipping has started doing. It's a transponder system for shipping, but instead of being assigned a different squawk every time they go out, the have a permanently assigned squawk. N-number anyone? --Change the freq so you don't need the Ham ticket. This stuff breaks my heart. It would be so simple, so cheap, so effective, it might actually save a life (over and above the poor track record ELT's have) and it ain't never going to happen. No one will make money off it so no one will advocate it. I have to go for a walk to calm down. Stay safe, folks. Steve. |
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Steve Fossett missing?
Fairly simple. The (2m) tracking unit has a small gps that feeds
digital signals to the attached transmitter. The signals include latitude, longitude, speed, altitude, direction and are picked up by a host of volunteer ham towers - digital repeaters and/or iGates. That info is transferred to internet servers and you can easily see the results on a Google (or other type) map on places like www.findu.com - simplicity itself for users. I suggest that you pay another $15/yr for a private website YourPlaneName.com where your relatives or FAA can go to find the latest tracking. A lot of automobile users use the system so their wives can tell where they are (hmm?) . But their signals are often blocked by terrain. The best performance is from aircraft - any ham digi or igate tower within couple of hundred miles can see the signal. I have flown cross country - remote areas - and there is rarely a break in 1 or 2 minute reporting intervals. Are you still gawking around. Memorize answers to some 100 ham questions, pay the $20? fee and get a APRS tracker. It may save your life. On Sep 5, 11:32 pm, "Montblack" Y4_NOT!... wrote: Interesting... Bring a Pilot to School Day: Can you explain how this works, like we're a class of 8th graders? We'll, 7th graders, really. See, 8th grade just started, but we're still reviewing from last year... Paul-Mont |
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Steve Fossett missing?
This is seriously cool stuff.
Please post this to rec.aviation.soaring. We need this in a big way. Bill Daniels wrote in message oups.com... Fossett had a typical ELT that apparently did not turn on or was out of range. I have a APRS tracker that continuously sends position/velocity info on the ham frequency. Worked very well so far and gives peace of mind to relatives - and useful to FAA on a flight plan. If Fosset had a continuous tracker, the job of finding him might have been a lot easier. You can build an APRS tracker for about $250. A basic ham license is easy to get. For more info http://www.abri.com/sq2000/GPStrack.html ------------------------------------------------ SQ2000 canard, http://www.abri.com/sq2000/ On Sep 4, 2:13 pm, "Rob Turk" wrote: CNN reports Steve Fossett is missing. " Fossett took off from a private air strip known as Flying M Ranch, near Smith Valley, 30 miles south of Yerington, Nevada, on Monday, with enough fuel for four to five hours of flight, according to the Civil Air Patrol. Yerington is south of Carson City, near the California border." Let's hope for the best |
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