fr8doggie
Canis Onus
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- Apr 10, 2003
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Some of the newer planes have a beacon that you can take with you. ETOPS planes maybe? It floats and you can turn it on manually or it turns on automatically when it his the water. The actual aircraft ELT can't be turned on that I know of.
I see. All FDX aircraft have a control panel on the overhead that lets us turn on the ELT that is hard mounted to the airplane. We also have portable ELTs in the rafts.
It's the first thing I would do if I was having an emergency and not in radar contact/VHF comm.
Regards,
Fr8doggie