Hello all,
The actual Emergency line is stopped (Regular Emegency & Emergency Mission).
Here are all the functions for this watch
Emergency:
Emergency Mission:
When you own (buy, sell) this watch, you need to fill in a contract directly with Breitling (in order to register your personnal info associated with the Watch serial number).
If you use it in an aeronautical disaster, the watch and the beacon will be gracefully replaced by Breitling.
If you use it to play, unscrew the antenna by mistake, joke, it will costs to you a lot (SAR services are very expensive, helicopters, rescue men, flight hours to pay, people...)
And at last, if you want to test it, the watch came with a tester on the 121.5 Mhz frequence, and you cans test it at home, without unscrewing the antenna.
The maintenance cost for that type of watch has to be done each 2 years (watch itself and the beacon), here in Europe it cost about 340€.
If you want to activate it, see below
Breitling Emergency: Important information concerning the 121.5 MHz distress frequencyIn its recent news bulletins, the COSPAS-SARSAT (International Satellite System For Search and Rescue) issued a reminder that it will terminate the 121.5 MHz emergency frequency satellite processing service on 1 February 2009.This information has caused a certain amount of confusion among Breitling partners and clients, who have been erroneously led to believe that this decision would render obsolete the main function of the Emergency watch.Breitling wishes to refute this assumption by providing some important additional information.
The COSPAS-SARSAT decision relates exclusively to the cessation of the satellite alert service.It does not affect the process of localizing victims,which will continue to be performed by emergency services operating on the 121.5 MHz frequency.
According to COSPAS-SARSAT, this decision to terminate satellite processing of the 121.5 MHz emergency beacons “affects all maritime beacons (EPIRBs), all aviation beacons (ELTs) and all personal beacons (PLBs).”However, COSPAS-SARSAT specifically states that “other devices (such as man overboard systems and homing transmitters) that operate at 121.5 MHz and do not rely on satellite detection will not be affected by the phase-out of satellite processing at 121.5 MHz”.The Breitling Emergency watch is one ofthe latter type of systems.(
http://www.cospas.sarsat.org/)
Serving as a complement to the beacons carried aboard aircraft, the Emergency has never been intended to trigger an alert, but instead to help locate people in distress.It therefore does not require satellite detection in order to operate.The operating principle of the Emergency for locating victim on the 121.5 MHz frequency is therefore not affected by the COSPAS-SARSAT decision and the Emergency will long remain an effective means of increasing one’s chances of survival in case of a crash.
The fact that COSPAS-SARSAT encourages beacon owners to acquire 406 MHz beacons before 1 February 2009 is due to their compatibility with satellite detection and alert processes.It is important to note that these beacons are in fact twin-frequency 406 MHz/121.5 MHz beacons, an essential characteristic in that the 121.5 MHzfrequency is necessary to locate victims via the homing devices fitted on search and rescue equipment.
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