tdawson-townsend(at)auror
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 Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 2:30 pm Post subject: ELTs |
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Linn, make sure you aren't criticizing systems based on acronyms alone. You seem to have a low opinion of ELTs, but 406 MHz ELTs are a different animal. That's why they have a completely separate TSO. They are higher power than 121.5 ELTs, send coded signals, and reduce the "footprint" that CAP needs to search for you by more than an order of magnitude. If you have to buy a brand-new ELT for a brand-new airplane, why wouldn't you go for the superior system?
Linn wrote: "I'm not sure if there were many (if any) 'saves' through an ELT/satellite link, but the general consensus (from what I'm hearing) is that an ELT by itself just doesn't save lives."
Here's some data from the NOAA site. For these numbers, they only count rescues where the SARSAT system was actually involved, not just somebody yelling over the radio.
August 31, 2007
Number of Persons Rescued (To Date) in the United States: 262
- Rescues at sea: 191 people rescued in 53 incidents
- Aviation rescues: 23 people rescued in 15 incidents
- PLB rescues: 48 people rescued in 22 incidents
· Worldwide – Over 22,058 People Rescued (since 1982)
· United States – 5,658 People Rescued (since 1982)
Numbers from 2006
272 people rescued in 105 incidents in the United States
- Rescues at sea: 220 people rescued in 71 incidents
- Aviation rescues: 15 people rescued in 12 incidents
- PLB rescues: 37 people rescued in 22 incidents
Linn wrote: "The EPIRBs that boaters have been using for decades work a whole lot
better"
You hit the nail on the head there, because the boaters have been using 406 MHz for several years now. Any boating EPIRB built in the last probably 8 years was 406 MHz.
So yes, please do at least get a handheld EPIRB. But that is going to be $500 anyway, so why not get a real 406 MHz ELT? I have seen the Artex unit for less than $900 . . .
Just remember the Learjet that crashed a few years back out of Lebanon, NH. It went down less than 20 or 30 miles from the airport, but it took them 2 or 3 years to find it in the woods. Without a 406 MHz ELT after next year, you end up in pretty much the same boat.
TDT
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