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#104832 - 09/06/07 04:21 PM Re: about that Breitling [Re: Russ]
Doug_Ritter Offline

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FYI, the Breitling Emergency transmits the same analog signal as a regular ELT.
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#104833 - 09/06/07 04:28 PM Re: about that Breitling [Re: Doug_Ritter]
Russ Offline
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Registered: 06/02/06
Posts: 5357
Loc: SOCAL
Thanks. Lots of bad info or at least bad quotes. 406 MHz PLBs look better and better all the time.
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#104834 - 09/06/07 04:45 PM Re: about that Breitling [Re: Russ]
Katie Offline
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Registered: 08/23/07
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Fossett search stresses need for new beacons says USA Today. ""I personally have chased alerts [from false alarms] to ATM machines, malfunctioning Christmas lights, and the University of Arkansas Jumbotron," Knox said."

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#104908 - 09/07/07 04:03 AM Re: about that Breitling [Re: Katie]
Susan Offline
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Registered: 01/21/04
Posts: 5163
Loc: W. WA
No PLB, no sat phone, no Breitling watch, just totally dependent on the radio in his aircraft, which may have fallen wingtip-down into a slot canyon, and the antenna is broken off. Great. So much for his planning ahead. If he's still alive, I'll bet he feels really, really stupid. And if he doesn't, he should.

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#105024 - 09/08/07 04:23 PM Re: about that Breitling [Re: Susan]
Russ Offline
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Loc: SOCAL
Latest on Steve Fossett once again changes the story on how much water (and other supplies?) he had with him.
Quote:
. . .Adding to the grim prospects was the revelation Friday that Fossett most likely had only one water bottle with him when he took off for what was expected to be a three-hour flight in a single-engine plane. Authorities initially thought he had enough water to last two weeks. . .
He could still walk out, but that 76 yo lady in OR had a slightly different ecosystem to deal with.
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#105029 - 09/08/07 06:19 PM Re: about that Breitling [Re: ]
Russ Offline
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Registered: 06/02/06
Posts: 5357
Loc: SOCAL
The old "Familiarity Breeds Contempt" syndrome applies to other than people. You break that with EDC discipline. My helmet bag always goes flying with me, water, tools, signaling equipment, et al. On a VFR flight such as Fossett was on I'd have more gear, not less; there was no reason for Fossett to have left gear behind. There's no such thing as a "routine flight".

Every time you take-off you have to assume that today the plane or the weather or a flock of birds will try to kill you. An experienced aviator knows that stuff can go wrong on any flight so you always take core gear and supplement as conditions dictate. Sure the plane may have survival/emergency gear/supplies and if I owned that plane it would be well equipped for me. But Fossett was borrowing the plane and as we learn more each day, apparently it wasn't as well supplied as the owners may have thought it was.

Something went wrong with either Fossett or the plane and the rest is becoming history.
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#105203 - 09/10/07 08:43 PM Re: Steve Fossett SAR [Re: Katie]
picard120 Offline
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Registered: 07/10/05
Posts: 763
I don't think Steve survived the plane crash. SAR haven't found him despite intensive search. They found old wrecks of other planes.

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#105385 - 09/12/07 12:36 PM Re: Steve Fossett SAR [Re: Katie]
picard120 Offline
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Registered: 07/10/05
Posts: 763
CNN reported that SAR doubt that steve is alive. SAR said he was wearing a high tech emergency watch that could send out distress signal to satellite. His plane was also equipped with automatic distress beacon. None of those devices sent out a distress signal.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/12/fossett.search.ap/index.html

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#105389 - 09/12/07 01:08 PM Re: Steve Fossett SAR [Re: picard120]
jshannon Offline
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Registered: 02/02/03
Posts: 647
Loc: North Texas
If it comes to an end with Fossett never being found, it will be a strong, and sad, reminder that even the most experienced can "fall" if they are not properly prepared. And, even the seemingly simplest of "missions" (Fossett just going for a fly over some land for a short time to look for his future record attempt) require a minimum of safety equipment in the event things go wrong.

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#105391 - 09/12/07 01:17 PM Re: Steve Fossett SAR [Re: jshannon]
Russ Offline
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Registered: 06/02/06
Posts: 5357
Loc: SOCAL
What this event tells me is to stop putting off buying that PLB.
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