Linda - Most ELT antennae are on the top of the airplane, or, sometimes, inside a fabric airplane.
Don't put them inside your fuselage, though, as the metal fuselage will shield the signal and keep it from getting out. Jerry E. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Linda Abrams Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 5:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ercoupe-tech] !21.5 Emergency Freq Thanks for your post Jim. The part below brings to mind a question: since the belly of the plane seems most likely to take damage in a crash, why are ELT antennas there? Linda N3437H (Sky Sprite) L.A. Jim Truxel wrote: "The aircraft impacted the ground with such force that the ELT antenna was broken off, thus the signal could not be transmitted to the Satellites."
