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Use of 121.5 ELTs to be illegal in U.S. in about 60 days.
Jim Logajan wrote:
Within 60 days of being published in the Federal Registry, use of 121.5 MHz ELTs will be forbidden by a re-write and re-title of 47 CFR section 87.195: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_publi...C-10-103A1.pdf "The manufacture, importation, sale or use of 121.5 MHz ELTs is prohibited." The original text of 47 CFR section 87.195 may be read he http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-...998&TYP E=PDF Two issues: 1) There are ELTs that support both 121.5 and 406 MHz, yet the one-sentence regulation doesn't acknowledge their existence, so it can be interpreted to mean their use too is prohibited. 2) There are going to be a lot of seriously annoyed and ****ed owners of "older" equipment. Yep, this was proposed in 2006 and nobody involved seemed to notice. What most likely will happen is the FCC will go ahead with the ban on the certification, manufacture, importation, or sale of such ELTs and delay the ban on use to some future data, which will likely be the same date the FAA eventually mandates everyone get a 406 MHz ELT. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. |
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Use of 121.5 ELTs to be illegal in U.S. in about 60 days.
Jim Logajan wrote:
wrote: Jim Logajan wrote: Within 60 days of being published in the Federal Registry, use of 121.5 MHz ELTs will be forbidden by a re-write and re-title of 47 CFR section 87.195: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_publi...C-10-103A1.pdf "The manufacture, importation, sale or use of 121.5 MHz ELTs is prohibited." The original text of 47 CFR section 87.195 may be read he http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-...E=47&PART=87&S ECTION=195&YEAR=1998&TYPE=PDF Two issues: 1) There are ELTs that support both 121.5 and 406 MHz, yet the one-sentence regulation doesn't acknowledge their existence, so it can be interpreted to mean their use too is prohibited. 2) There are going to be a lot of seriously annoyed and ****ed owners of "older" equipment. Yep, this was proposed in 2006 and nobody involved seemed to notice. It looks like the aviation alphabet groups were caught unaware - at least with the nearness of the effective date: http://www.aopa.org/advocacy/article...100621elt.html http://www.eaa.org/news/2010/2010-06-21_conflicting.asp What most likely will happen is the FCC will go ahead with the ban on the certification, manufacture, importation, or sale of such ELTs and delay the ban on use to some future data, which will likely be the same date the FAA eventually mandates everyone get a 406 MHz ELT. I'm inclined to think they'll make no change. I've already seen a distributer of ELTs say they were caught by surprise too. You'd think they would be more astute to these things. I don't know if 121.5-only ELTs are still being sold or in sales pipelines (looks like it, though,) but they would now only be useful as bricks even if "use" is still allowed. Given the brevity of the regulation and speed of implementation, the cynic in me thinks someone in the FCC has a pecuniary interest in seeing the price of 406 Mhz ELTs temporarily spike as demand outstrips available supply. Speed of implementation? There is stuff in there proposed 1998 and the ELT stuff was proposed in 2006. The bottom line is nobody in aviation was paying any attention to what the FCC has been proposing to do for the past twelve years. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. |
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Use of 121.5 ELTs to be illegal in U.S. in about 60 days.
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Use of 121.5 ELTs to be illegal in U.S. in about 60 days.
Jim Logajan wrote:
wrote: Speed of implementation? There is stuff in there proposed 1998 and the ELT stuff was proposed in 2006. The time period within which a proposal is placed before the public for consideration is distinct from the grace period between when a regulation is announced and when it becomes effective. I'm not sure why you think there should be a correlation. The point is that there has been at least 4 years for people to point out the problems with the proposal and fix the final rule. Nobody did until the final rule was announced. The bottom line here is everyone in aviation, including the so called aviation news sources, dropped the ball by paying no attention what so ever to proposed FCC regulations effecting aviation. At least a few people are paying attention to what the EPA is doing which could mean the end of 100LL. Aviation is effected by the rules of more than the FAA. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. |
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Use of 121.5 ELTs to be illegal in U.S. in about 60 days.
Jim Logajan wrote:
.... Lastly, the FCC document is interesting in that the rationale uses appeals to authority based on internal dialogs with other government agencies. Amusing to read about the effects on small users. It sees they had difficulty defining who a little user is. I wonder just who that could be? Brian W |
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