Emergency Locater Transponder

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Have you ever wondered how people find missing airplanes? It turns out that they use a thing called an ELT or Emergency Locater Transponder. When triggered, it sends out a distress signal on the frequency of 121.500mhz better know as the emergency frequency. If you have a special receiver, you can hear the ELT, it is a very very creepy siren like noise. It tracks Emergency Responders to the crash site with precise GPS locations. That is what that creepy siren noise is. It is a cool system how the ELTs work. For more info, look here!

Hope you enjoyed this “lesson”!

(By the way I made this topic because we had to train for finding a lost airplane today with the Civil Air Patrol and I thought that I would let you all know some pretty cool stuff about the ELT. Please note that this info is only from the ELT that we trained on.)

What are your thoughts?

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Yup. Done this in CAP.

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I’m sure that was fun in Texas where it is always 100 degrees.

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Nope. It was during the winter. At least then it was 40°.

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Oh. Lol. We had to do it yesterday when it was 50 degrees out and raining. It was also 8pm at night.

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