fable2omg Posted November 22, 2017 Posted November 22, 2017 (edited) I've been working on a civilian Aeroflot campaign for the Mi-8 in the Soviet era of the Caucasus (hopefully I'll finish it one day, lol) and after toying around with the ARK-UD VHF homing set, one thing led to the other, then I hit a wall. What kind of ELT did the Soviets use? What did it sound like? At what year was it distributed across the Aeroflot? I'm talking pre-Cospas-Sarsat era, in the early 70's, there had to have been a reason why they had the ARK-UD as equipment aboard helicopters, possibly to find early ELTs in Siberia? It must've had a completely different story to it than the general aviation in North America.. None of these questions could be answered by google.. So I thought I'd make a thread about it here. As far as I know the Aeroflot did pretty much everything that wasn't done by the military aviation, which should make an Mi-8 campaign pretty interesting, I'm thinking about combining cargo transportation, base building, Search And Rescue and maybe personnel transportation to and from ships. Any information you guys have related to Soviet-era civil aviation, I will gladly take note of and add to the campaign.:book: Most importantly, if you can guide me towards what the Russians used as ELTs before the Cospas-Sarsat treaty, what it sounded like, what frequency they used (I'm guessing 243MHz, 121.5MHz seemed to be in North America) and maybe even tell me about Aeroflot Search And Rescue, that'll be greatly appreciated, thank you! ----------------------------------------------------- If you don't know what's an ELT, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_position-indicating_radiobeacon_station To me it's always been little boxes that broadcast on 121.5MHz and 243MHz "elsewhere", apparently what I know as an ELT was 70's technology though. Apparently now they use 406MHz frequency, and it's a whole different world than the one I know. Edited November 22, 2017 by fable2omg
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