ACR Electronics has been a trusted source for safety and survival technology for more than 25 years. Being an AS9100C-certified company, ACR Electronics has a very robust quality management system driving the manufacturing of its high quality products.
Some of its high quality products include a full range of 406 megahertz distress beacons including emergency position indicating radio beacons (EPIRBs), personal locator beacons, and ARTEX emergency locater transmitters (ELTs), as well as search-and-rescue transponders, rescue strobe lights, and more.
The company officially announced the launch of its newest product, the ARTEX ELT 3000, in March at Heli-Expo 2016. The ELT 3000 is a transport grade ELT that is truly integrated.
“[The ELT 3000] is the smallest and lightest 406 ELT with built-in navigation interface on the market,” said Mike Schmidt, director of sales. “This product is especially well suited to the unique requirements of the rotorcraft market where size and weight are always a top priority.”
The compact form factor of the ELT 3000 is coupled with the integrated NAV interface, which omits the requirement for a separate NAV interface unit and provides significant reductions in weight and cost.
“The built-in navigation interface allows the installer to tie into the onboard GPS without an additional GPS antenna requirement, and by having the GPS data, the ELT can provide location notifications of an accident site within 100 meters in under a minute,” said Schmidt.
With its products being manufactured at its Fort Lauderdale, Florida, facility, ACR Electronics’ ELTs cover the entire aviation industry, from small, fixed-wing piston aircraft to Boeing 747s, and everything in between.
“Our attitude here is: we know our products are built to save lives. People are using our products at the worst moments; so, we really focus on the quality of the products. They have to work the first time–every time,” said Schmidt. “We know that when somebody lights off one of our products, that they’re having a really bad day and they need help right away. So that’s why it’s so important for us to incorporate the GPS information into the signal. It greatly reduces the time that it takes the search-and-rescue team to get to the site.
“It’s all about building a quality product that is going to get the right information to the right people, in the shortest amount of time possible.”
The ELT 3000 is 33 percent lighter than legacy ARTEX products, making the size and weight improvements significant. The ELT 3000 is available in both fixed- and rotory-wing configurations.
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