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[The Gooch]

sounds like an ELT

Could be the radalt's LAW (low altitude warning) going off...I went to look at the video and the server shut down the access b/c of too much bandwidth being x-fered. Its "technique" to set it a little below the deck altitude in case of a settle off the cat shot so you know whats going on, if your engine decided to stop working, etc. Then again, I only have 10 traps/cat shots, so I might be wrong, if anybody who saw it and is a hooker has input, feel free to correct as required.

 

[squeeze]

Could be the radalt's LAW (low altitude warning) going off... if anybody who saw it and is a hooker has input, feel free to correct as required.

uh...

 

[Punk]

Yeah, no. That's not the RADALT, that's an ELT going off.

The K'rock (or atleast in 21) technique was to set it to your 90 altitude (450'). But yes, on the cat, we set it to 40'.

 

[AllAmerican75]

Yeah, no. That's not the RADALT, that's an ELT going off.

Does that happen a lot when trapping aboard the boat? In the civilian world I know that if you land too hard or put the aircraft through just a little too much abuse, the ELT will go off. Makes for great Ground Team/UDF stories though.

 

[nittany03]

Does that happen a lot when trapping aboard the boat? In the civilian world I know that if you land too hard or put the aircraft through just a little too much abuse, the ELT will go off. Makes for great Ground Team/UDF stories though.

The ELT on the T-45 is actually part of the ejection seat and gets activated when you punch.

 

[Punk]

Does that happen a lot when trapping aboard the boat? In the civilian world I know that if you land too hard or put the aircraft through just a little too much abuse, the ELT will go off. Makes for great Ground Team/UDF stories though.

It didn't happen to us in 2 days. Maybe someone accidentially turned their dial on their PRC radio to BEACON. I doubt it was the URT-33 in the seat pan going off. Actually, I don't even think the T-45 has an aircraft ELT, I'm pretty sure uhe only one is in your seat pan in the ejection seat (the URT-33). And unlike a civilian ELT, these don't have a G-switch, its attached to a lanyard to the floor of the cockpit which is pulled when the seat rides the rails.


Let's see, back in my GT days in CAP, out of 13 finds, only one was an actually crash. But nothing like giving someone a call at 3 AM to come open their hangar cause their dumbass tripped the ELT while they were working on their plane that day.

 

[gaijin6423]

We could always tell when the shop next to ours at Pendleton had a PRC-90 in-work. Those idiots would always turn the beacon on, and their phone would start ringing off the hook. Occasionally, crash would send a truck over to the AVI compound to politely ask them to turn the damn thing off. It's not like the freaking PRC-90 is that complicated a piece of gear.

 

[petescheu]

Naw it was someone's ELT that was kicked off by trapping on the boat. It was annoying as hell too.. ya'll are killing my bandwidth allocation btw, take her easy...