December 21, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
APA monitor alerted again, 1531.
Located: Located in hangar south of tower on helo. Owner turned ELT off.
Teams: KC0JBV, N0JJH, N0NIM
Lessons Learned: APA is fencing off access areas. We may need to arrange a visit with Ops for access to ramp.
December 21, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
APA monitor alerted about 0705. Arrived after N0NIM and N0ZEE. Alerted airport operations then crossed gate for transient ramp at TACAIR (NE side of tower).
Located: Aircraft was located about 0800 and confirmed by N0NIM, N0ZEE, and KC0JBV. Next problem was locating the owner. Aircraft listing showed PO Box, FAA Flight plan had phone number, no answer (out of state), TACAIR could not find notification information. Airport Ops reset ELT about 0945 while N0NIM and KC0JBV were going thru phone book calling for relatives with same last name.
Teams: NoZEE, N0NIM, KC0JBV
Lessons Learned: Finding the ELT does not always end the search.
November 30, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
APA monitor alerted anout 11:33.
Located: Located at East Ramp (31-02) on Piper Cherokee.
Teams: WY0X, N0ZEE, KC0JBV
Lessons Learned:
September 25, 2002
Other
Alert information: Centennial Airport
APA monitor alerted at 1405L.
Located: Enroute to APA from office ELT ceased
Teams: WY0X, KC0JBV
Lessons Learned:
September 24, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Front Range Airport
Two ELTs alerted one at 48V and another at FTG around 1832L.
Located: N0PSR headed for 48V and located ELT in hangar with a person still there. N0ZEE headed for FTG and found a locked hangar. Around 2030 owner showed up and ELT was turned off at FTG.
Teams: N0PSR, N0ZEE, N0JJH, KC0JBV
Lessons Learned: Spinning around and around makes children dizzy
September 13, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Front Range Airport
Betty alerted Kent about 1930 about SARSAT hit near DIA.
Located: Located in C-205 at FTG.
Teams: N0PSR, WY0X, N0ZEE, N0JJH
Lessons Learned:
September 12, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Jefferson County Airport
BJC monitor alerted 0551.
Located: Located on ramp in transient area. Located co-owner around 7:45.
Teams: N0PSR, KC0JBV
Lessons Learned: Carefull how you word requests to wife about aircraft owners location at 0600 CA time.
September 04, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
APA Monitor paged near 1916.
Located: N0MHU located at Precision at APA.
Teams: K0LPM, N0MHU, KC0JBV(remote assistance)
Lessons Learned:
September 03, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
APA Monitor paged near 1130.
Located: WY0X located at T-Hangars at APA.
Teams: WY0X, KC0JBV, N0PSR(remote assistance)
Lessons Learned:
September 16, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Jefferson County Airport
BJC monitor paged, ELT running at BJC.
Located: N0PSR located at T-hangars in vehicle.
Teams: N0PSR, KC0JBV
Lessons Learned:
September 16, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
APA Ops Paged with ELT running at APA.
Located: Located at APA Platius on install of remote switch.
Teams: KC0JBV
Lessons Learned:
July 21, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport SAR-SAT
ELT heard on the APA monitor thought to be from and AC that ran off the runway. It was turn off and another ELT was being heard by Eldorado. Approximately 15-20 min into the search we got information on a SAR-SAT hit 3 miles South of Van Aire and 2 miles North of DIA.
Located: As teams hearded into the area the ELT was heard on the ground and located non-distress at Van Aire the house located at Harvest Road and Harvest Ct. The ELT was on a Mooney that had not been flown for 1 year, but was shown to a potenial buyer earlier in the day. The owner was home and secured the ELT
Teams: Lenoard KC0JBV, Kent N0PSR, Robbie N0PYQ, JJ N0JJH, Jay N0NIM, Barry N0ZEE CAP: Doug McClure Thanks to Betty also.
Lessons Learned:
July 10, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
0909 monitor at APA sent out page.
Located: Arrived at airport at 0923. ELT was located at Aspen Air, instructor was aware the ELT was running and had alerted staff at Aspen Air. One of the staff members and I walked out to the aircraft and I explained how to deactivate the ELT. It was off at 0939L.
Teams: KC0JBV
Lessons Learned:
July 05, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
Located: Located on Gulfstream-4 Bizjet on the ramp in front of JetCenter on Centennial. Turned off at 3:40pm. ELT malfunctioning, crew contacted mechanics for service.
Teams: KA0ZAS, WY0X
Lessons Learned: FREDF team badges worked with Arapahoe Sheriff folks...we were allowed to stay on ramp.
June 24, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
ELT started at approximately 1630 and was deactivated around 1900.
Located: On disassembled aircraft at new hanger north of Denver Jet Center East.
Teams: KA0ULN,N0ZEE,N0PSR,WY0X,KC0JMT,KC0JBV (on the side)CAP memerber-KB0UUY
Lessons Learned: Strong signals are difficult to DF on the East side of the airport. Signal was super strong.
June 26, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
Monitor alerted at 0232.
Located: Mike located at Adam Aircraft on prototype aircraft.
Teams: K0LPM, N0JJH, KC0JBV
Lessons Learned:
June 13, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
Monitor alerted at 11:05
Located: Departed work for APA with ELT aquired on the ground. Located at Precision Aviation on 172 with ELt just replaced.
Teams: KC0JBV
Lessons Learned:
May 25, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
ELT was heard by APA. Was stongest just sout of the tower.
Located: N38sb in a hanger just south of the tower.
Teams: N0ZEE, KC0JMT
Lessons Learned:
May 25, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
ELT was heard by eldorado and APA. Was by the TAC Air building
Located: ON one of the heavy lift choppers standing by for the fire.
Teams: N)ZEE,KC)JBV,KA0???, and one other team.
Lessons Learned:
May 24, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
Momnitor alerted about 0615 (yea about 12 hours).
Located: ELT was located on a Boeing 107 (look that one up) at 636. ELT was off at 0730.
Teams: N0ZEE, KC0JBV
Lessons Learned:
May 23, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information:
Eldorado monitor alerted about 1824. Drove to 84th and Federal and did not detect signal. N0NIM, WT0X, and N0JJH all came up. Departed for Boulder, Longmont, and Parkland.
Located: 1850 picked up ELT at Davidson mesa (above Boulder) pointing North. Located at 1V5 (Boulder) at 1908 on 115T. Was turned off by local mechanic at 1930. Owner was contacted shortly after turning ELT off. Aircraft was tagged with contact numbers.
Teams: N0NIM, N0JJH, WT0X, N0ZEE, KC0JBV
Lessons Learned:
May 15, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
Monitor alerted at 12:49 at APA.
Located: Mike located ELT at and was turned off at 1420.
Teams: KC0JBV, K0LPM
Lessons Learned:
May 18, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
ELT Started Approximatly 1am at Centenial. N0JJH put out first page after initial alert. Then KC0JBV did another.
Located: ELT Located on the ramp South of the Denver Jet Center East. Airport ops Opened the plane. We tried turing off by remote switch in the cockpit but it didn't work. Shut off by main switch on elt.
Teams: N0JJH,KC0JBV,WY0X,N0ZEE,N0PSR
Lessons Learned:
April 13, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
ELT at Centenial. Started around 4pm.
Located: Located near Tac Air Ramp on a Cesna. Deactivated via remote switch in the cockpit
Teams: N0ZEE
Lessons Learned:
April 29, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
APA monitor paged out at 11:35.
Located: Was in the Platipus hangar workin on one of 4 aircraft when it ceased.
Teams: KC0JBV
Lessons Learned:
April 16, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
Pager alerted that APA was active. Paged team and departed shortly after.
Located: ELT was located at Mayo Aviation shortly after departing vehicle.
Teams: N0ZEE, KC0JBV
Lessons Learned:
March 19, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
APA Monitor alerted at 1351. ELT faded several times. ELT eventually faded out at 1426. Departed APA for work when another stronger ELT with a different sweep speed activated.
Located: ELT was located in eastern most hangar from Jet Center East.
Teams: KC0JBV, N0ZEE (assisted remotely)
Lessons Learned: Strong ELT can radiate in another buildings metal framework.
March 13, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
APA Alerted 13:01 and 13:36
Located: Near Jet Center East
Teams: KC0JBV, K7??
Lessons Learned: Unless you want a long walk run the whole length of the airport. Good reflection at precision.
March 03, 2002
Distress
Alert information: Longmont Airport
At 10:52 am, ELT hear by Eldorado monitor. Longmont was hearing the signal weekly.
Located: At Longmont on an aircraft that hit a patch of ice while landing. The aircraft flipped over.
Teams: Lenard G., Kent R., Robbie R., Mark S., JJ H.
Lessons Learned:
February 23, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: SAR-SAT
about 14:30 Sar-Sat picked up hits in the boulder area. 2 positive, and then went negative. Upon hearing the conversation, and talking to CAP, 243 was opened on the Eldorado monitor, and a weak signal was heard. Signal soon faded, as 2 teams covered the Boulder area. Nothing was heard on the ground. 15:07 hrs, APA and Eldorado picked up a second elt. This one very loud, and a strong signal. It was Turned off about 16:10. Teams continued to cover the Bouder area, with nothing found. Another sar-sat hit was reported near the Marshall Lake area. Additional reports were negative. Teams cleared the area, and RTB. About 18:30 hrs, We checked all Airport monitors, and Eldorado monitor. On 243, what sounded like a sweep in the noise was confirmed by 3-4 other Hams. The search was back on. We also notified CAP, who was able to get aircraft in the air. Since the signal was on -off all day, we didn't know what we were up against, and it was getting dark.
Located: As the HAMs spread out around the city, a signal was heard need c470 & 6th AVE. Teams quickly moved in the area. The CAP planes were getting ready for take off at this time. After a breif search of the area, the ELT was located in a Glider trailer at a trailer park, just to the south of where it was first heard. The owner is a real nice guy, after the ELT was addressed, we all gathered for dinner. ELT was turned off about 21:30.
Teams: Kent R. Robbi R. Jay H. JJ H. Lenard G. Barry M & Family. Nate D.
Lessons Learned:
February 23, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
While listening to 243 on the eldorado moniitor for a weak elt, this second one showed up. Covering up the origional one.
Located: At Centennial. Aircraft had not been flying. APA operations, securied it quickly.
Teams: Kent R. Robbi R.
Lessons Learned:
February 20, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
13:14 APA monitor alerted. 13:25 paged FREDF.
Located: Located at Precision (Jet Center West). Non-distress on a Piper Seminole. Maintenance activated ELT.
Teams: N0NIM, KC0JBV
Lessons Learned: I do better outside the Container;-) Also on windy days working in the hangar is easier.
January 31, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
APA monitor paged at 1629
Located: Located south of tower in Warbird hangar, on SkyMaster (02).
Teams: N0ZEE, KC0JBV
Lessons Learned: Compliment the planes and you get free posters...
Hits Since 06/06/2002January 31, 2002
Non-Distress
Alert information: Centennial Airport
Monitor paged out at 14:51
Located: Located at Precision, activated by maintenance.
Teams: N0PSR, KC0JBV
Lessons Learned: Remind A&E that we are not available as monitors.
