ELT's Personal vs Installed

I realize the requirement is only for contests now but does the
personal ELT meet the requirement or does it have to be one installed
in the glider?

It has to be mounted and meet FAA c91a standards.
Tom
Idaho
wrote:
I realize the requirement is only for contests now but does the
personal ELT meet the requirement or does it have to be one installed
in the glider?

wrote:

It has to be mounted and meet FAA c91a standards.

The Rules Committee is considering allowing c91 units, but these must
still be mounted. You might want to contact them about personal units,
if those appeal to you.


I realize the requirement is only for contests now but does the
personal ELT meet the requirement or does it have to be one installed
in the glider?




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Eric Greenwell
Washington State
USA

Eric Greenwell wrote:
wrote:

It has to be mounted and meet FAA c91a standards.

The Rules Committee is considering allowing c91 units, but these must

still be mounted. You might want to contact them about personal
units,
if those appeal to you.


I realize the requirement is only for contests now but does the
personal ELT meet the requirement or does it have to be one
installed
in the glider?




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Eric Greenwell
Washington State
USA

I would seem airplanes can have many passangers and do not normally
carry parachutes so logically you would put the ELT in the plane.
Glider pilots in contest carry parachutes so in most cases I can think
of it would be better to have the ELT with the pilot. Is there a reason
this is not allowed in contest flying?

Glider pilots in contest carry parachutes so in most cases I can think
of it would be better to have the ELT with the pilot. Is there a reason
this is not allowed in contest flying?


It's probably because the ELT that's carried in a parachute won't activate on
impact like the one mounted in the aircraft. If an aircraft crashes and the
pilot is incapacitated, can't reach to activate it or worse yet, dead, he might
as well not even have one. The ideal situation would be to have one mounted in
the glider and one carried in the parachute.

Mark

MKEENE221 wrote:

Glider pilots in contest carry parachutes so in most cases I can think
of it would be better to have the ELT with the pilot. Is there a reason
this is not allowed in contest flying?



It's probably because the ELT that's carried in a parachute won't activate on
impact like the one mounted in the aircraft. If an aircraft crashes and the
pilot is incapacitated, can't reach to activate it or worse yet, dead, he might
as well not even have one. The ideal situation would be to have one mounted in
the glider and one carried in the parachute.

My imprecise recollection is pilots that parachute out are generally
found a lot quicker than pilots that crash, probably because they
survive and use the radio, cell phone, etc. For this reason, I decided a
mounted ELT would do me, my wife, and search personnel more good than a
personal one.

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Eric Greenwell
Washington State
USA

Mark is absolutely correct that the two together is the BEST possible
scenario.

With that said, I think it would be nice if the RC simply stated that an
ELT of any kind is required. If a mounted ELT gets pulverized in the
crash then that's no good and if someone bails out, but becomes
incapacitated then a portable is no good and even if you have both you
are not guaranteed one will work.

Sure would be nice if the RC would allow the individual to make the
decision as to what he/she thinks is best. If the RC makes a
recommendation, that is certainly understandable.

Mark

MKEENE221 wrote:
Glider pilots in contest carry parachutes so in most cases I can think
of it would be better to have the ELT with the pilot. Is there a reason
this is not allowed in contest flying?



It's probably because the ELT that's carried in a parachute won't activate on
impact like the one mounted in the aircraft. If an aircraft crashes and the
pilot is incapacitated, can't reach to activate it or worse yet, dead, he might
as well not even have one. The ideal situation would be to have one mounted in
the glider and one carried in the parachute.

Mark

At 22:00 19 January 2005, Mark James Boyd wrote:

all the good stuff chopped out

P.S. By the way, what does 'reducio ad absurdum' mean?
My wife said it
to me, but I don't speak Italian...can someone translate?

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Mark J. Boyd


Mark, Why didn't you ask HER?

Some of the other members of this newsgroup know:

My wife doesn't speak Italian, Yiddish, or Latin
Minden, California isn't, and I know that (right Al?)

:P

On the flip side, I did find out "reductio etc." referred
to a proof by contradiction, which I did not know.
And I know a lot more about the price of radishes, too...

This shows that sometimes when I ask a question about something
I recall from Latin class 20 years ago, I may
find out something new...

;O

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Nyal Williams wrote:
At 22:00 19 January 2005, Mark James Boyd wrote:

all the good stuff chopped out

P.S. By the way, what does 'reducio ad absurdum' mean?
My wife said it
to me, but I don't speak Italian...can someone translate?

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Mark J. Boyd


Mark, Why didn't you ask HER?





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Actually it's "Reductio ad absurdum" (with a 't').

http://www.iep.utm.edu/r/reductio.htm

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At 22:00 19 January 2005, Mark James Boyd wrote:

all the good stuff chopped out

P.S. By the way, what does 'reducio ad absurdum' mean?
My wife said it
to me, but I don't speak Italian...can someone translate?

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Mark J. Boyd


Mark, Why didn't you ask HER?