FAA evaluated five separate courses of action with regard to the airworthiness approvals for securing ELTs with hook and loop fasteners. This notice summarizes the inadequacies of hook and loop fasteners as a means for securing ELTs, and avoids placing an undue burden on aircraft owners while acknowledging the voluntary efforts of ELT manufacturers to improve designs.
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Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs)
FAA evaluated five separate courses of action with regard to the airworthiness approvals for securing ELTs with hook and loop fasteners. This notice summarizes the inadequacies ...
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80 FR 12697
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“Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs),” thefederalregister.org (March 10, 2015), https://thefederalregister.org/documents/2015-05500/emergency-locator-transmitters-elts.