ELT's are a joke

Earlier, Buck Wild wrote:

...There's gotta be an elt available that
sends one short burst with your exact
GPS location to a satalite...

Sorta off-topic, but sorta not:

Last year, me and a couple of friends sitting around
the table at Air Sailing had a big ol' discussion about
that. One of the controversial ideas that came out
of that was that perhaps the best predictor of accident
survival was how long it took emergency crews to reach
the accident site. What we figured is that glider pilots
need something like the OnStar system that they put
in Cadillacs and such.

What we hashed out was a GPS-enabled system capable
of sensing a crash impact, and further capable of determining
the proximity to civilization and the nature of the
surrounding terrain. With that information at hand,
the box would assess the impact energy and location,
and place a satellite call for a MediFlight helicopter
or ambulance as appropriate.

Just some into-the-box thinking.

Bob K.