These folks are the US dist…
…for Pains-Wessex, I believe.
http://www.reveresupply.com/pyro/day-night-signal-flare.htm
Might call them and find out where to get one. I ordered my Pains-Wessex FastFind Plus from them a couple years back.
From the
official US Coast Guard Addendum publication on SAR:
Flares:
Meteor: Rapid rise and descent/250-400ft height/10000-30000 candlepower/ 15-17nm vis range
Parachute: Rapid rise and slow descent/1000-1200ft height/20000-40000 candlepower/14-20nm vis range
Hand-Held: Steady/Assume 10ft height/ 500-15000 candlepower/8-16nm vis range
From the website http://www.knoydart.co.uk/display_access.php?category=8&access=8&id=309 :
A red flare at one end burns for 20 seconds at 10,000 candela
You decide…
jay
when you say “get a gun”, do you mean the flare guns made by Orion, or something else? The Orion flare gun flares don’t seem any more substantial than their pencil flares.
the local REI has a basic flare pack…
same thing you can get at west marine…