REFLECTOR: ELT

[Terry Miles]

Al,
I believe the panel portion is just an activation warning light and
reset switch to stop the transmission if it goes off when it shouldn't.
To the best of my knowledge there is no "requirement" to have this
device in your panel.  I am not mounting mine in the front panel.
Terry

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Al Gietzen
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 6:42 PM
To: reflector
Subject: REFLECTOR: ELT



During construction of my plane I never gave much thought to the ELT
installation; thinking that I would eventually mount it somewhere behind
the vanity bulkhead. No wires to pull - no big deal.

 

I bought an Ameri-King AK450 a few months ago, and put it aside.  I
opened it today to do the installation.    It has a Remote Unit that
should be mounted in the panel, and a cable that goes to the transmitter
unit.  Oops; I should have dealt with this long ago before my panel was
nicely painted and completed, and the wire bundles were covered by the
nice upholstery panels.  And it needs to be installed in a specific
orientation on major structure. Hum-m-m; those places are pretty well
used up. 

 

One big concern - the instructions say that the antenna (if mounted in a
non-metallic airplane) needs a ground plane that is a minimum of 36" in
diameter!  How can that be achieved?

 

I'm sure once I get over "Installation Shock" I can deal with this, but
suggestions will be appreciated.

 

I understand this can be put off until after completion of the 40 hour
test program, but it probably won't be any easier then.

 

Thanks,

 

Al

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