Newps wrote:

Vaughn Simon wrote:

Would you rather that the FAA require you to trash your old ELT and buy a
new one before your next annual?


Before the next annual? No. But there should already be a mandate to
replace 121.5 ELT's with the 406 version. Something like no new 121.5
can be installed, all new ones must be 406's and a date, say 2012 that
all aircraft must have the 406.

I can see new aircraft must have them (once there are choices on the
market). Old ones that no longer work would have to be converted to
406 MHz.

I carry a 406 MHz PLB so I have no desire to convert to a 406 MHz PLB
any time in the forseeable future.

Ron Lee