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Jim
Maybe I'm the only one who never came straight home from the avionics shop and registered my brand new ELT, but I'm confessing here in case it helps someone else.
I spent a lot of money to have my panel overhauled two years ago. While the plane was in pieces, I also had my 121.5 ELT swapped out for a 406.
When I got my plane back from the shop, I was not told anything about registering my new ELT. It was probably well over a year before I stumbled across something that made me realize, "Wait...what? I'm supposed to register my ELT?!?!" Once I figured out how to do that, I went looking through my paperwork, and the 15-digit beacon code I needed from my unit was not in any of my documentation.
I kept meaning to take a photo of my ELT label to get that code "the next time I get out to the plane", but of course I kept forgetting to do that. Finally, one day I remembered to snap a photo, got home, logged into the ELT registration site, and then realized the clamp that secured my ELT obscured the last few digits of the beacon code. Arrgh!!!
More weeks went by. Finally, today I found myself with no agenda, and decided to make a special trip out to the hangar just to get the beacon code. I finally just now finished registering my ELT...almost 2 years after it was first installed.
Have you registered yours?
I spent a lot of money to have my panel overhauled two years ago. While the plane was in pieces, I also had my 121.5 ELT swapped out for a 406.
When I got my plane back from the shop, I was not told anything about registering my new ELT. It was probably well over a year before I stumbled across something that made me realize, "Wait...what? I'm supposed to register my ELT?!?!" Once I figured out how to do that, I went looking through my paperwork, and the 15-digit beacon code I needed from my unit was not in any of my documentation.
I kept meaning to take a photo of my ELT label to get that code "the next time I get out to the plane", but of course I kept forgetting to do that. Finally, one day I remembered to snap a photo, got home, logged into the ELT registration site, and then realized the clamp that secured my ELT obscured the last few digits of the beacon code. Arrgh!!!
More weeks went by. Finally, today I found myself with no agenda, and decided to make a special trip out to the hangar just to get the beacon code. I finally just now finished registering my ELT...almost 2 years after it was first installed.
Have you registered yours?