Hey Dave, A government agency overstepping their authority by restricting the use of functioning equipment private parties bought in good faith?
I'm, truly shocked! Not that the FCC would do this, but that we aren't used to it by now. Anyone in the market for a good, functional Loran? I'm sure they are thinking of all the jobs they can claim will be necessary to remove and recycle all this hazardous plastic and batteries, to manufacture all these new units, to ship them, to install them and to test them. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. They can claim to reduce unemployment and create jobs all at the same time and use stimulus money to induce lots of lobbying activity in favor of this plan. The new units don't have to be better, cheap or even available...they just have to be mandated to greatly reduce the number of general aviation aircraft "legal" to fly for a while. All these wealthy people don't really need to be in the air anyway, so why waste government resources to rescue those that get themselves in trouble, right? WRB -- On Jun 24, 2010, at 00:57, [email protected] wrote: > What concerns me is not just banning the future sale of 121.5 ELT's; I > think we all knew it was just a matter of time until they were phased > out by the FAA. What bothers me is that the FCC is restricting the USE > of the 121.5 frequency band as I read it. As far as I know, the only > change is that the SARSATs do not monitor it, and are on 406.0 now to > pinpoint a beacon better than they could on 121.5. This is pretty > confusing, since the airlines are still FEQUIRED to monitor 121.5 > en-route as an emergency and/or interception frequency. ATC still > monitors 121.5 as well. Bottom line is that 121.5 is still a valid > emergency frequency, so I'm not sure what their logic is on > restricting it. I recently installed an AmeriKing 406 beacon, so I'm > covered there, but all the new 406 beacons I've seen still have 121.5 > and 243.0 broadcast capability. So now am I restricted from using > that capability by the FCC if I need to activate it? How do I > coordinate my rescue if I can't use 121.5 anymore? > > Some idiot in the FCC has overstepped their authority. I can't wait > for the sh*tstorm between AOPA, FAA, and FCC on this one. Who's > really calling the shots for Obama in this brain-dead agency anyway? > I thought they were too busy trying to regulate the Internet using > 75-year old telecommunications laws to worry about aviation! > > Later, > Dave
