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Use of 121.5 ELTs to be illegal in U.S. in about 60 days.
Jim Logajan wrote:
/snip/ the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system. And regrettably, your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you." /snip/ Above all: Don't panic. Brian W |
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Use of 121.5 ELTs to be illegal in U.S. in about 60 days.
Jim Logajan wrote:
.... Lastly, the FCC document is interesting in that the rationale uses appeals to authority based on internal dialogs with other government agencies. Amusing to read about the effects on small users. It sees they had difficulty defining who a little user is. I wonder just who that could be? Brian W |
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Use of 121.5 ELTs to be illegal in U.S. in about 60 days.
Stealth Pilot wrote:
I dont know why you object so strongly. the new 406 machines are encoded so that the rescue people can look up who's elt has gone off. The issue isn't with regard to technical aspects of 406.0/.1 vs 121.5, but that the grace period between the required-by date and announcement date is so short. It seems probable there simply wouldn't be enough 406 ELTs on hand in the U.S. to cover the short term demand, among other problems. |
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Use of 121.5 ELTs to be illegal in U.S. in about 60 days.
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:37:50 -0500, Jim Logajan
wrote: Stealth Pilot wrote: I dont know why you object so strongly. the new 406 machines are encoded so that the rescue people can look up who's elt has gone off. The issue isn't with regard to technical aspects of 406.0/.1 vs 121.5, but that the grace period between the required-by date and announcement date is so short. It seems probable there simply wouldn't be enough 406 ELTs on hand in the U.S. to cover the short term demand, among other problems. well Jim it happened just recently in Australia as well and the manufacturers seemed to ramp up production of some beautiful units in time for the demand. I bought a superb GME brand MTS410 GPS version. It cost more than my years flying but if needed in the middle of the nullabor in summer heat it will pay for itself in an instant. sometimes you guys just think too much. Stealth (still no transponder) Pilot |
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Use of 121.5 ELTs to be illegal in U.S. in about 60 days.
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:55:16 -0500, brian whatcott
wrote: 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. The basis for banning the sale of ordinary 121.5 ELTs (one exception) is that there is no sattelite facility to listen on this frequency and (apparently) the uch better success rate of locating 406.0 406.1 ELTs. Hey, If the FAA doesn't care if I have a 121.5 ELT, neither do I. Roger It seems evident that any ELT which can offer an emission which is listened for (on 406.0/ 406.1) will be encouraged. Brian W |
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Use of 121.5 ELTs to be illegal in U.S. in about 60 days.
"Roger" wrote in message ... On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:55:16 -0500, brian whatcott wrote: 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. The basis for banning the sale of ordinary 121.5 ELTs (one exception) is that there is no sattelite facility to listen on this frequency and (apparently) the uch better success rate of locating 406.0 406.1 ELTs. Hey, If the FAA doesn't care if I have a 121.5 ELT, neither do I. Roger Good point, Roger, A similar discussion came up some time ago, at a live seminar rather than on usenet, and the result was that the FAA had better uses for their time and manpower than to enforce FCC rules. That was then and... Deja vu is never exact and the use of cell phones (both then and now) would generally work for the mutual convenience of both pilots and controllers while alarms from parked aircraft and ELT use by back packers and cliff climbers appear to have caused a lot of serious problems for various agencies including FAA; so this could well be different--especially when false alarms are involved. Just my $0.02 Peter It seems evident that any ELT which can offer an emission which is listened for (on 406.0/ 406.1) will be encouraged. Brian W |
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