November 14, 2004
Distress
Alert information: Longmont Airport
Longmont monitor was hearing an ELT around 8:45am and teams started to head out to find the signal. Sooon after there were reports of a missing aircraft. Ian was first in the area and determined that the signal was west of the Longmont area. Lyons Fire has setup and incident command at the Lyon's fire rescue house on Highway 66. Pilot had placed a call from his cell phone to emergency services to let them know he had crashed.
Located: The Aircraft a Cesna 152 Tail number N48943 was located by a team from Rocky Mountain Rescue that had headed out ahead of everyone else. Aircraft had crashed South West of the town of Lyons just south of the Quarry. They secured the beacon and had started loocking for the occupent of the aircraft that had decided to try to hike out.
Teams: N0PSR, KB0HKY, N0ZEE, Rocky Mountain Rescue, Lyons Fire Rescue and Boulder County Sherriff.
Lessons Learned: Working a signal in the mountains is very interesting.
NTSB report: NTSB Report
May 27, 2004
Non-Distress
Alert information:
Located: Early this morning some of us chased down an ELT to a strange place. It was the simulated World Airport of Metropolitan State College on the Auraria campus in downtown Denver. The Department of Aviation is housed in the Seventh St.Classrooms (7th and Lawrence). We got the campus police to open the building for us and outside the Avionics lab there are 3 or 4 ELT's in a display case, but they were not active. When we went into the lab we found a least 3 old simulators all with real ELTs and one was on. It was a simple matter of flipping a switch on the panel to turn it off, and we suspect the cleaning crew accidently turned it on.
It was a fun search since the signal was well shielded to the Southeast, bounced off the canyon walls of downtown Denver, and follow the Platte River Northward. And...yes let's not forget that most of the streets are one way with a street light at every intersection that was usually red. At least traffic was light
Teams: KCØQZR, NØJJH, and NØNIM
Lessons Learned:
March 26, 2004
Non-Distress
Alert information: SAR-SAT
SARSAT hearing ELT in tight pattern around 88th AVE and York. N0JJH was hearing ELT from home location I-25 and Thornton Parkway after being alerted.
1st alert 1030L
Hear on the ground at 1108L
Found at 1215
Off at 1510
Located: ELT was located non-distress approx 1230 hrs L. In a mobile home Colorado 2 and 77th ave. Owner not home message left on front door and answering machine. States "kids brought home ELT from A/C" it fell off TV. ELT is an E6B. Owner asked to remove batteries
Teams: N0JJH, N0NIM, KC0JBV
Lessons Learned: Hate mobile home signal reflected everywhere, Traffic at mid-day is as bad as rush hour
February 21, 2004
Non-Distress
Alert information: Longmont Airport
Approx 1920 L we were page for an ELT being heard by the Longmont monitor
Located: The ELT was thought to be located on the south side of the 2V2 in SH 2 T space I. After failing to find a RP, the ELT still running, the Longmont monitor was disabled for the night, and a note left for the owner. 24 hours later the ELT could no longer be heard. Assumed turned off.
Teams: KC0QZR, N0ZEE, N0NIM
Lessons Learned:
February 23, 2004
Non-Distress
Alert information: Longmont Airport
Approx 0118 L the team was paged for ELT being heard by Eldorado and occ. by Longmont
Located: The ELT was located in a hanger at Boulder Community Airport on a Duke (twin engine AC). The AC had been in the shop for weeks. It appears that the ELT suffered some type of switch failure. Cycling the switch did not turn off the ELT. It was removed from the AC.
Teams: KC0QZR, N0JJH, KC0JBV, and N0NIM
Lessons Learned:
January 16, 2004
Non-Distress
Alert information:
ELT started at 1523hrs and was only being heard by Eldorado. Team started to deploy around 1730hrs. Got ground reports from south east of Longmont at first. CAP cadets had started to box the signal in from HWY 52.
Located: The workded into the area of Parkland based on ground reports from CAP grond teams. The becaon was located at a house on Betty Pl in the Parkland Airpark community. Initial find was be Ian.
Teams: N0ZEE, KB0HKY, N0NIM, N0JJH, N0ERS for a while and assistance from N0PSR for a while.
Lessons Learned: CAP cadets need much guidence.