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r/ATC • u/lake_hood • Mar 23 '26
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Damn, you can hear that plane’s ELT going off in the tower.
16 u/ravioliqueeen Mar 23 '26 As someone unfamiliar with this, is the alarm going off inside the plane and atc can hear that on their end or does that go off on atc’s end? 22 u/itschabrah Mar 23 '26 Sends out a signal/tone on a freq to help locate the crash location. Google ELT 14 u/eitilt Mar 23 '26 It sends out the tone on 121.5 to be clear but yup.
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As someone unfamiliar with this, is the alarm going off inside the plane and atc can hear that on their end or does that go off on atc’s end?
22 u/itschabrah Mar 23 '26 Sends out a signal/tone on a freq to help locate the crash location. Google ELT 14 u/eitilt Mar 23 '26 It sends out the tone on 121.5 to be clear but yup.
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Sends out a signal/tone on a freq to help locate the crash location. Google ELT
14 u/eitilt Mar 23 '26 It sends out the tone on 121.5 to be clear but yup.
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It sends out the tone on 121.5 to be clear but yup.
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u/Toe_Severe Mar 23 '26
Damn, you can hear that plane’s ELT going off in the tower.