I can't remember this happening before.

EdFred

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Took off from 6Y9 this morning to head back to 9D9 via Manitowoc and Ludington. Set my altimeter to field elevation, and it was 30.01 Near Iron Mountain I heard an ELT going off on 121.5, so I called up ZMP and reported it. They asked if I wanted flight following. I said sure, and was given an altimeter setting on 30.01 Then i was handed off to Green Bay approach. Altimeter setting: 30.01. Handed back to ZMP on 120.85, Manistee atimeter: 30.01. Handed off to Muskegon, altimeter at Muskegon: 30.01. Grand Rapids, picked me up, altimeter setting 30.01

Almost 300nm flight, and the pressure was the same over the entire area. Unfortunately, any altitude deviations were my fault, and couldn't be passed off on changing air mass. :mad:
 
EdFred said:
Took off from 6Y9 this morning to head back to 9D9 via Manitowoc and Ludington. Set my altimeter to field elevation, and it was 30.01 Near Iron Mountain I heard an ELT going off on 121.5, so I called up ZMP and reported it. They asked if I wanted flight following. I said sure, and was given an altimeter setting on 30.01 Then i was handed off to Green Bay approach. Altimeter setting: 30.01. Handed back to ZMP on 120.85, Manistee atimeter: 30.01. Handed off to Muskegon, altimeter at Muskegon: 30.01. Grand Rapids, picked me up, altimeter setting 30.01

Almost 300nm flight, and the pressure was the same over the entire area. Unfortunately, any altitude deviations were my fault, and couldn't be passed off on changing air mass. :mad:
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There is so much extraneous information in that it sounds like an FAA exam question. "What was altimeter setting at final destination?"

A) 121.5
B) 20.85
C)30.01
D)30.10
 
Richard said:
There is so much extraneous information in that it sounds like an FAA exam question. "What was altimeter setting at final destination?"

A) 121.5
B) 20.85
C)30.01
D)30.10
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Yeah, I wanna hear more about the ELT.

Funny how the air behaves some days.
 
TripleZ said:
Yeah, I wanna hear more about the ELT.

Funny how the air behaves some days.
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Told ZMP I was 10 west of Iron Mountain and was picking up an intermittent ELT. They told me to let them know when I stopped receiving it. After that they started asking other planes if they were picking it up so they could try and get a fix on it.
 
If the intermittent signal was due to it being weak but continuously transmitting, depending on where your receive antenna is mounted on your Bird, you probably could'a nailed that thing with the wing-null method of DFing along with the signal strength.

It's becoming a lost art, however, even in CAP. The Becker makes things way too easy. No one listens to the sweeps to get a feel for strength, multipath, nulls... Sigh.

If intermittent because it was going on and off, that's a bit trickier.

Funnest ELT chases yet were the one in the USPS boxcar at the railyard, and the one in a glider being towed from Boulder, CO to just south of Golden, CO by a kindly old German fellow who was worried he was in trouble when four vehicles descended on his campsite in rapid succession.

The group's basically defunct now, but we still have receivers on 121.5 and 243.0 at a number of local airports.

http://www.fredf.org

There were so few people responding to them, and their backup batteries have all failed, that the alert mode has been turned off. There's maybe four of us who remember how to command them to play whatever they're hearing out over a local UHF repeater anymore.

Interest waned, people got older, and very few ELTs over the last decade as flying activity went down or ELTs got better (and moved to 406 for some) mean that the group is pretty dead now.

Mix that with CAP's retarded requirement that an "Urban Ground Team" consist of a minimum of two people, so they rarely "come out and play" anymore either, and ELTs around here run for hours and hours.

I really don't need someone in the passenger seat of my truck to help me find an ELT. I had enough brains to pull over, take bearings, draw on a map, and then drive.

Re-tar-ded.

Was more fun when ten of us would show up, find the stupid thing in the first half hour, wait another two for someone to notify the owner, and have them open up the hangar, and then go have mexican food somewhere and talk.

The L-Per sits in my garage, gathering dust. It's so old the practice beacon frequency in it is still 121.6 :(
 
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