Hi,
The Fixed Automatic ELT
Automatic ?
How it's "automatic" when someone must activate a switch for the device be operational ?
On many ships I sailed .. those devices were "really automatic" .. as when they contacted water they begin to send signal with no human intervention necessary ... (no need to activate any ON-OFF switch)
Ironic that old rusted ships are equipped with such devices and a state of art technology like a A330 don't have it ...
statutory requirements
Maybe the aviation world must learn some lessons from the shipping world for improve the SAR operations and modify their statutory requirements .....