On August 2, 2018, Neil Stone and his Creative Electronics’ ELT Beacon Tester were featured in an article, titled “What it takes to build an ELT tester,” in the publication General Aviation News. The Publisher of this periodical, Ben Sclair, interviewed Mr. Stone, and an excerpt, along with a link to the full article, is below.
Article Excerpt:
I love aviation. More specifically, I love the people who are passionate about aviation and the puzzle it can be. Neil Stone is a great example.
He’s 80 years old. He’s a pilot. He’s also an active airframe and powerplant (A&P) mechanic with inspection authorization (IA). He’s also taught himself electronics and industrial design.
In the last several years, he’s added computer programmer and manufacturer to his business card.
Those latter titles came as a result of his once attending an IA meeting where the topic of discussion turned to the then relatively new 406 MHz ELT.
“When it was mentioned that a suitable tester was a $4,000 investment, I started wondering if I could design a tester that would be more reasonably priced,” recalls Neil.
That’s despite the fact he “had no knowledge of the new beacons.”
Neil dove in.
To read the full article on the General Aviation News website, Click Here.