Which P.L.B to buy and why???
(Bolded for emphasis) Be sure to only buy a PLB programmed for Australia!
The EPIRB Hex code has a preprogrammed prefix that identifies the country of registration.
So if you have bought an American EPIRB via Aircraft Spruce, etc. and you set it off, the ground station will route the alert to the American safety authorities who will look in their database and find ?????? Buy this one locally. But of course we all know this, don't we?
The EPIRB Hex code has a preprogrammed prefix that identifies the country of registration.
So if you have bought an American EPIRB via Aircraft Spruce, etc. and you set it off, the ground station will route the alert to the American safety authorities who will look in their database and find ?????? Buy this one locally. But of course we all know this, don't we?
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From the CHSmith.com.au website
"Note: New Zealand registration requires a new HEX ID number at users cost"
Would have to be the same for oz users buying from US ?
Like the idea of no ongoing subscription with the ACR unit
"Note: New Zealand registration requires a new HEX ID number at users cost"
Would have to be the same for oz users buying from US ?
Like the idea of no ongoing subscription with the ACR unit
I don't think you quite understand. These units cannot be reprogrammed except by the manufacturer, if at all. There go your savings from buying overseas.
AMSA doesn't charge for registering your beacon, you must update your details every Two years and they send you a new sticker for your PLB.
The Hex ID is unique to your PLB.
Country code list:
Table of Maritime Identification Digits
AMSA doesn't charge for registering your beacon, you must update your details every Two years and they send you a new sticker for your PLB.
The Hex ID is unique to your PLB.
Country code list:
Table of Maritime Identification Digits
Folks,
There is sod all difference in the costs of various PLB, amortized over the certified life, so why not support the Australian manufacturer, GME. There is one other Australian manufacturer, don't remember the name.
After all, GME developed the first 406 PLB (with and without GPS) that satisfied the then "new" standards that allowed a portable that would talk to the new generation COSPAS/SARSAT constellation. At very considerable capital investment, they proved it could be done.
Indeed, it was Australian action at international level that had the minimum specifications changed (principally certified battery life at -70c) to enable certified 406 PLB at all.
Not all Australian Federal Government agencies are like CASA.
And, from time to time, you do get a courageous (in the Yes! Minister sense) Minister, who is prepared to take on the likes of CASA and put legislation through against the concerted opposition of CASA, a piece of facts based performance regulation --- not only saving lives as a result, but saved the aviation sector from having to fit many tens of millions of $$$$ of fixed ELT that were not going to work, in the real world -- that was John Sharp.
All the rest followed on. It is only in the last very few years that other countries have started to do what we have done for years, used PLB far more widely than just aviation.
This is one of the few areas of aviation that NZ has got completely wrong.
Tootle pip!!
There is sod all difference in the costs of various PLB, amortized over the certified life, so why not support the Australian manufacturer, GME. There is one other Australian manufacturer, don't remember the name.
After all, GME developed the first 406 PLB (with and without GPS) that satisfied the then "new" standards that allowed a portable that would talk to the new generation COSPAS/SARSAT constellation. At very considerable capital investment, they proved it could be done.
Indeed, it was Australian action at international level that had the minimum specifications changed (principally certified battery life at -70c) to enable certified 406 PLB at all.
Not all Australian Federal Government agencies are like CASA.
And, from time to time, you do get a courageous (in the Yes! Minister sense) Minister, who is prepared to take on the likes of CASA and put legislation through against the concerted opposition of CASA, a piece of facts based performance regulation --- not only saving lives as a result, but saved the aviation sector from having to fit many tens of millions of $$$$ of fixed ELT that were not going to work, in the real world -- that was John Sharp.
All the rest followed on. It is only in the last very few years that other countries have started to do what we have done for years, used PLB far more widely than just aviation.
This is one of the few areas of aviation that NZ has got completely wrong.
Tootle pip!!
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Bugger, having another don't quite understand moment
"This is one of the few areas of aviation that NZ has got completely wrong.
Tootle pip!!"
How's NZ got this wrong?
I agree buy local if it's as good as imported, here in the "land of the good footballers "
all our gears an import
Tootle pip!!"
How's NZ got this wrong?
I agree buy local if it's as good as imported, here in the "land of the good footballers "
all our gears an import
I recently bought one of these jobbies for bushwalking;
PLBs | KTI
Very light and compact, Australian company too.
PLBs | KTI
Very light and compact, Australian company too.
