[FoxHunt] ELT Training

[J. Craswell]

Well sounds like that would be a good scheme.  Any Hams who can outdo us
will of course have to be "drafted."  <grin>  Of course a lot of our crew
are Hams also and were previously drafted <grin>  Per the comment about high
percentages of false alarms we have had a good number of non distress
missions as well.  I think the percentages are 90+%  We worked on one really
nasty crash a while back and my fervent hope is that it will be the last.
But, we will continue to work as if all are real.  A very bad idea is (I
think) to go out on a ELT Mission-Foxhunt and assume it is another in a
series of false alarms.  What is it they say about assume?  It makes and ASS
or U and ME? <grin>

I agree that the 121.775 MHz switch is helping a lot to make training happen
more often.  In Minnesota we contact the flight services office with a phone
number and area we are working in so that any reports of a weird ELT on the
wrong freq can be responded to.  As my Ma sez "It couldn't hurt!"  We try to
get our people to borrow the equipment and use it as often as possible.

73 de Jay Craswell W0VNE

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