Sylvain wrote:
wrote:
in the same price range you could buy yourself an EPIRB with
embedded GPS; may be not as stylish but a tad more effective
I would guess

A tad? I trust you're being sarcastic. A 406MHz PLB can be had for
under $600 and will squawk your GPS coordinates up to a satellite. Even
the best 121.5 ELT won't help until someone hears it, and even then the
search grids can start out pretty large (ask any CAP SAR folks). Where
I fly (New England) I doubt there's too many places I could go down and
go unnoticed for very long*, but if I spent more time away from the
densely populated areas I'd have this on my shopping list.

-cwk.

* To be fair, once one goes north of Manchester NH, things get plenty
thin enough. Five or six years back a Lear went down on approach into
Lebanon, and the wreckage wasn't found for a couple years. Especially
in Winter one doesn't have to be out in the open very long for it to
prove deadly.