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Forget the fancy paint job...just test the ELT after each flight like the Fed's suggest...and change the battery and have the newest and best one avail..after all this is NOT the place to go cheap...A while back there was an operator out of Calif that had the top of their horizontal stabilizer (elevator) painted Da-Glo orange
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If you are an Instrumented rated Pilot then file IFR and fly IFR...you will almost always be in radar contact through out the country and talking to Air Traffic Control...for the non pilots..IFR means "Instrument Flight Rules"...and not "I Follow Roads" as suggested earlier by a non-Instrument Rated Pilot...
Just these two factors, having a working ELT installed and filing a flight plan, would probably make our services unnecessary. That these two factors were common to both the Boychuk and Fossett disappearance is no surprise; we wouldn't be looking for them otherwise. It's probably safe to assume this will be the case in any future searches we become involved in. Media attention about this could help to cause more awareness in the aviation community. Maybe talking up this point in interviews or on the website would cause some pilots to think about the importance of installing and maintaining ELTs and filing flight plans. At least in the event of a crash, they would have these two major advantages to figuring out where to search.
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