Steve Fossett Missing

[mzaharis]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/04/fossett.missing/index.html

 

[Princedietrich]

This probably won't have a happy ending.....

 

[SPilot]

Its hot out there.

 

[BushwickBill]

If I had the money I'd invest in one of these

http://www.landfallnavigation.com/smartfindplus.html

 

[NW_Pilot]

If I had the money I'd invest in one of these

http://www.landfallnavigation.com/smartfindplus.html

I have one of them in my flight bag

 

[mzaharis]

In addition to the ELT, he supposedly has one of those Brietling watches that broadcasts on 121.5, but I don't know how useful they are (especially if you're incapacitated and cannot activate it).

 

[BushwickBill]

Compared to a 406 beacon with a GPS a 121.5 ELT is worthless...

 

[avbug]

A 121.5 ELT is far from worthless. A lot of people owe their lives to them.

 

[BushwickBill]

A 121.5 ELT is far from worthless. A lot of people owe their lives to them.

Of course having ATC asking airliners to guard 121.5 and report when the beeping starts and stops is a great exercise in triangulation. Sure they find people with it. They also don't find people with it. How many false alarms? False alarms make people complacent. How many have been lost due to this outdated and inadequate system? I think it is silly to have all glass techo marvel single engine piston airplanes that cost 600k that don't have a 406 beacon standard.

Personally I would prefer to have SAR know the following information: my position within 100 feet, any medical information on file (blood type etc..), who I was, and that no this is not a false alarm we called his (wife, parents, charter company etc.) and know he was out on a flight.

I'd rather have an ELT than a signal fire sure, but I'd put my money on the 406 beacon.

 

[Huggyu2]

When I buy an airplane, it will have the 406 on board.

 

[PonchoMan]

He didn't make it. That is what the remote viewer said on coast-to-coast AM last night.

 

[avbug]

Of course having ATC asking airliners to guard 121.5 and report when the beeping starts and stops is a great exercise in triangulation. Sure they find people with it. They also don't find people with it. How many false alarms? False alarms make people complacent. How many have been lost due to this outdated and inadequate system? I think it is silly to have all glass techo marvel single engine piston airplanes that cost 600k that don't have a 406 beacon standard.

Apparently you don't have much experience using, DFíng, searching for, and recoving ELT's under simulated and actual conditions. I do, and trust me, they do save lives. COSPAS/SARSAT is what locates ELT's...not triangualtion by someone monitoring guard. While monitoring guard is a way for someone to hear and identify the activation of an ELT, it's not located that way; it's located by sattalite, and then by direction finding equipment being used by trained personnel.

ELT's capable of broadcasting one's location and other details on 121.5 have been available for years. If it makes you feel better, in two years, it will all be 406 MHz.

121.5 is far from worthless.

 

[regionalcap]

He didn't make it. That is what the remote viewer said on coast-to-coast AM last night.

The news orginizations are saying that nothing has been found yet.

 

[bubbers44]

Many years ago an experimental plane crashed in southern California on Mt. Baldy by Pomona, Ca. The CAP searched all week with no results. I happened to be flying into Ontario, Ca on Friday night and with my old 737-200 radio with manual squelch heard their signal from the ELT and advised ATC it was abeam Mt. Baldy. Saturday morning news was they found the wreckage because of a joint US/USSR satellite. The new radios don't have a squelch override so need a strong signal to receive it. Neither survived but at least they could end the search.

 

[Metro752]

Of course having ATC asking airliners to guard 121.5 and report when the beeping starts and stops is a great exercise in triangulation. Sure they find people with it. They also don't find people with it. How many false alarms? False alarms make people complacent. How many have been lost due to this outdated and inadequate system? I think it is silly to have all glass techo marvel single engine piston airplanes that cost 600k that don't have a 406 beacon standard.

Personally I would prefer to have SAR know the following information: my position within 100 feet, any medical information on file (blood type etc..), who I was, and that no this is not a false alarm we called his (wife, parents, charter company etc.) and know he was out on a flight.

I'd rather have an ELT than a signal fire sure, but I'd put my money on the 406 beacon.

you're an idiot, see I said it simpler that Avboog