The phone rings at your house, you answer it, and the person calling says he's from the US Air Force!! (OMG, they want to recruit me as a jet pilot maybe?????) What would you be thinking at this moment??
Then he asked me if I am Bob Brusa, and is my plane N no. N412SB, to which I reply yes to both questions. Then he tells me they are getting an ELT transmission from my plane.
I tell him the plane doesn't even have an engine yet and thus has not flown.
It turns out my partner, who has the RV12 in his garage which we are building, was working on installing the ELT and did not notice that the switch was in the "on" position. When he connected the wiring he could not understand why he was hearing beeps!!
The instructions on the ELT tell you to go to Radio Shack and get a resistor to make a test wire to check and see if the ELT works. We haven't done that yet so now I guess we won't have to. It works!!!
So if you want to save yourself the time of trying to check it, just turn it on and wait for the AF to call you!!! LOL
Bob
Then he asked me if I am Bob Brusa, and is my plane N no. N412SB, to which I reply yes to both questions. Then he tells me they are getting an ELT transmission from my plane.
I tell him the plane doesn't even have an engine yet and thus has not flown.
It turns out my partner, who has the RV12 in his garage which we are building, was working on installing the ELT and did not notice that the switch was in the "on" position. When he connected the wiring he could not understand why he was hearing beeps!!
The instructions on the ELT tell you to go to Radio Shack and get a resistor to make a test wire to check and see if the ELT works. We haven't done that yet so now I guess we won't have to. It works!!!
So if you want to save yourself the time of trying to check it, just turn it on and wait for the AF to call you!!! LOL
Bob