New ELT 406 mhz

[astjp2]

Re: New ELT 406 mhz

What about the AmeriKing - AK-450 - ELT? Under $200 and uses regular flash light batteries. Anybody have one? How good are they? Pros? Cons?
Hank

The AmeriKing is JUNK, when I was selling aircraft parts in Anchorage, each one that was in stock had cracks in the plastic housing and they all were sent back and the owner of the store did not bring them back in. That was 10 years ago, things may have changed since then but I am not confident. Besides its 121.5, not 406 Mhz I would go more towards the Artex or the EBC, they are both over a grand. Tim

[Hank Jarrett]

Re: New ELT 406 mhz

What about the AmeriKing - AK-450 - ELT? Under $200 and uses regular flash light batteries. Anybody have one? How good are they? Pros? Cons?
Hank

Re: New ELT 406 mhz

try this

http://www.chiefaircraft.com/airsec/Aircraft/ELT/Artex.html

$949

[Hank Jarrett]

Re: New ELT 406 mhz

Any input from the tribe on which 406 MHz is the best deal? I know I'm REALLY tired of the expensive batteries in my old 121.5 one, especially after I cut one of the packs open and it was nothing but $4.00 worth of flashlight batteries in a block of epoxy.
Maybe we can get a group buy going. Anybody notice I like the idea of buying in blocks?
Hank

[astjp2]

Re: New ELT 406 mhz

Short answer....YUP!

To be honest, if an owner doesnt want to fly with one, I do not want my tax dollars spent searching for the bodies....

Re: New ELT 406 mhz

Last year at the IA annual meeting they told us that 121.5 would be replaced by the encoded 406 mhz devices at about $1000 each and I think it was in 2009

[robbie]

Re: New ELT 406 mhz

are we going to need these new elt here
in the states next year??

[astjp2]

Re: New ELT 406 mhz

You can get one from spruce for around 1200.00. Tim

[flykenken]

Re: New ELT 406 mhz

The only agency in Canada requiring the use of the 406mhz elt when 121.5 is decommissioned is the Department of Defense. Transport Canada has yet to make a ruling. Navacanada has no regulatory say in the matter.

[Len Petterson]

In Canada our DOT and Nav Canada are responsible for search and rescue are insisting we all install new ELT's before a feb 2009.
The cost of the approved ELT's are $3000 to $4000 + instalation cost,as they require instalation by a certified radio shop.
It also applies to aircrafts transient in Canadian airspace.
A US aircraft flying in Canadian Air space will also need one no matter privat or commersial regestration.
So a Taylorcraft owner wanting to take short cut from Buffalo to Windsor /Detroit on the way to Airventure or other destinations west, will need one.
As well as if you want to fly from the lower 48 to Alaska trough Canada.
Many of us think the rulling is rediculus but Canadain DOT will not listen to us owners of privat planes. Copa ( Canadain owners and pilot assosiation) have had talks with them do no avail. FAA and DOT are to meet abot this and other matters shortly and troughout 2008. A heads up to AOPA and EAA to FAA may carry more weight when we do so please give us a hand in this matter.
We will all be affected by these kind of desitions, being costly and / or
un-nessessary. I and many others belive what untill lower cost units are avalable we can do well with what we have or use the personal ELT's operating on 406 Mhz. It is a well known fact what the present ELT'S are not relably acctivted in a crach by the impact switch, so keep in your mind if you see truble coming turn it on manualy!
Just to let you all know Personal ELT's work I will relate a story told to us by a search and rescue officer.
Last year the 406 system was not officaly in servise but it was ready.
He was stationed in Gander New Foundland when a call came in. From not too far from Gander, they hade no known aircraft in the area and no ships in distres on the coast.
A helicopter was dispatched to area and they found a man running for his life along a river bed being chased by a polar bear. Needless to say he was happy to see them. He carried a personal ELT with GPS reciver.

Being Canadians and Americans means we live in peace with each other, and we travel freely across our border, so lets work togther too keep it what way in future as well. May it by ground transportation or by privat or commersial aircraft.
Len Petterson