KR> ELT requirement
At 01:31 PM 3/4/2006, you wrote: >I crashed my Mustang II within 4 miles of the airport with the ELT >working. I left it on to see how long it would take to get a response. I >never did... I'll remind all the flyers again about changing those "C" size batteries in you ELT on every annual or at least inspect and test whatever battery you have in your unit. I didn't check my batteries on the first annual as they were only one year old and had a date of 2010 on the batteries. I put a change date of two years on the ELT just for peace of mind. On my second annual, just completed, I found several of the batteries with broken cases and oozing crap all over the inside of my ELT. I don't know how long the unit has been inoperative. I will now change them every year even though the new batteries are the ones specified and have a date of 2012. Larry Flesner
KR> ELT requirement
Not sure where I saw it but you can buy a watch that actually has an ELT in it. I'm not certain what has to happen before it goes off though. Your hand may have to leave the scene of the accident. Kenny Wiltrout Kutztown, Pa 6399U - Original Message - From: "Larry Flesner" <fles...@verizon.net> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 3:16 PM Subject: Re: KR> ELT requirement > At 01:31 PM 3/4/2006, you wrote: >>I crashed my Mustang II within 4 miles of the airport with the ELT >>working. I left it on to see how long it would take to get a response. I >>never did... > > > I'll remind all the flyers again about changing those "C" size batteries > in you ELT on every annual or at least inspect and test whatever > battery you have in your unit. I didn't check my batteries on the first > annual as they were only one year old and had a date of 2010 on > the batteries. I put a change date of two years on the ELT just for > peace of mind. On my second annual, just completed, I found several > of the batteries with broken cases and oozing crap all over the inside > of my ELT. I don't know how long the unit has been inoperative. I will > now change them every year even though the new batteries are the > ones specified and have a date of 2012. > > Larry Flesner > > > ___ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.2/274 - Release Date: 3/3/2006 > >
KR> ELT requirement
Mine was working. > At 01:31 PM 3/4/2006, you wrote: >>I crashed my Mustang II within 4 miles of the airport with the ELT >>working. I left it on to see how long it would take to get a response. I >>never did... > > > I'll remind all the flyers again about changing those "C" size batteries > in you ELT on every annual or at least inspect and test whatever > battery you have in your unit. I didn't check my batteries on the first > annual as they were only one year old and had a date of 2010 on > the batteries. I put a change date of two years on the ELT just for > peace of mind. On my second annual, just completed, I found several > of the batteries with broken cases and oozing crap all over the inside > of my ELT. I don't know how long the unit has been inoperative. I will > now change them every year even though the new batteries are the > ones specified and have a date of 2012. > > Larry Flesner > > > ___ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
KR> ELT requirement
Indeed, there are other exemptions from the ELT requirement that may be
useful or of interest to experimental homebuilders. Reference 14 CFR 91.207
("Part 91")- there are exemptions made when it is required to ferry an
aircraft from a place where repairs cannot be made to a place where they
can, and other ferry operations. More useful, however, are these:
(3) aircraft while engaged in training operations conducted entirely within
a 50-nautical mile radius of the airport from which such local flight
operations began ["flying off your hours"]
(4) aircraft while engaged in flight operations incident to design and
testing
(9) [as mentioned by Virg] aircraft equipped to carry not more than one
person.
Oscar Zuniga
San Antonio, TX
mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com
website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
KR> ELT requirement
There was a guy flying locally that did not have an elt. He was in a turbine helo. He went up north on a cold Michigan day and crashed in the woods 10 miles from town. He survived the crash but had two broken legs and no operating radio or phone. He crawled away from the downed craft, but had to crawled back. He died of exposure within 24 hours of his crash. Orma Robbins N110LR
