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WBraun
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Dec 19, 2012 - 01:41am PT
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Air search will start tomorrow morning with 2 helicopters one from CHP and the other I don't know who it is yet.
It was snowing off and on all day so air ops was grounded today.
Both ships arrived late afternoon today.
The rangers trained with the direction finders today for tomorrows search.
Stay tuned .... :-)
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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Dec 19, 2012 - 01:48am PT
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Deja vu all over again. Miracles do happen.
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squishy
Mountain climber
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Dec 19, 2012 - 04:48am PT
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chainsaw, scuba gear, 100L packs, snowshoes...am I missing anything?
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 19, 2012 - 05:19am PT
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hey there say, all...
i am up, doing a project... just saw this...
will sure be praying...
for all concerned, meaning rescuers as well... and loved one of all
these folks...
god blesss...
thanks for sharing..
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Dec 19, 2012 - 07:48am PT
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Squishy....Are you missing anything....? A second novel soaked in aviation fuel...RJ
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Dec 19, 2012 - 09:51am PT
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Well I hope he is OK.
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WBraun
climber
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Dec 19, 2012 - 04:44pm PT
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Two CHP choppers searched all morning till 1:00 this afternoon.
Nothing so far.
In 15 minutes CHP will resume search again ......
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Dec 19, 2012 - 04:46pm PT
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Werner, loan Gill some snowshoes and get him on the trail.
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WBraun
climber
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Dec 19, 2012 - 04:50pm PT
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Jim, you mean "Dill" not "Gill".
There were some ground team searchers sent out late yesterday afternoon to try and pick up the emergency locator signal.
But they got nothing either.
The emergency locator transmitter only has an 8 our battery life.
So they are hosed today as far as getting a signal from the plane along with all that fresh snow from yesterday covering a white small plane.
It's now a needle in a haystack type search .....
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Synchronicity
Trad climber
British Columbia, Canada
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Dec 19, 2012 - 07:57pm PT
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Somebody get Licky in here, I'm sure he's going to want to commence with research as soon as possible so he can get his second book out...
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO
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Dec 19, 2012 - 08:06pm PT
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^^^^
I second the motion.
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Dec 19, 2012 - 08:22pm PT
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That was when Steve Fossett went in, Z. It was just over a year after the crash. Side note, I used to maintain that plane years ago, and met Steve a couple times during the Earthwind Hilton project. Cool guy, shame he went in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Fossett
Small planes are damned hard to find even when you're right on top of them sometimes.
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micronut
Trad climber
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Dec 19, 2012 - 08:24pm PT
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Somebody's loved ones were in that plane yall. Werner, glad you guys are on it. The best in the business. Hoping for a miracle maybe. Scary terrain and weather out there right now.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Dec 19, 2012 - 08:26pm PT
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Up here in thick PNW forests they are sometimes never found - hoping for a better outcome in this case.
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John M
climber
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Dec 19, 2012 - 08:29pm PT
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I'm hoping for the best.
I know weight counts in a plane, but only an eight hour battery?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 19, 2012 - 08:39pm PT
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The FAA has changed the requirements for Gen Aviation ELT's three or four
times since they were first mandated in 1973 after the crash of Alaska
Congressman Begich and the failure to find the wreck. Interestingly, there
are no requirements for battery life. Good ones will work for much more than
8 hours though but like any battery they don't do well if they are ignored.
More interestingly the latest design only activates 81-83% of the time!
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WBraun
climber
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Dec 19, 2012 - 09:05pm PT
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Nothing today.
CHP will try again tomorrow?
It's a total needle in a haystack search as some of the rest of you above correctly concluded also .....
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Dec 19, 2012 - 10:22pm PT
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The original ELTs transmitted on VHF (121.5 mHz I think), they went to 406 mHz to enable them to be picked up by satellite. The current models transmit GPS coordinates on 406 mHz so they do not have to be tracked. Within one minute the location is sent to a satellite.
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