Originally Posted by
Downwind Lander
We are back in the familiar territory of an aircraft evaporating without trace.
This time, the area is in the middle of Europe. Tomnod is dead and the RAF have Reapers in Lincolnshire which are still in Lincolnshire (or maybe the Middle East, of course). This is an organisational mess. This should not be happening.
We have cars and people going missing across the country every day, on land, in perfect weather.. Not sure I get your point. It had a Mode A/C transponder, they know roughly where it ditched, It is pretty obvious where it is now and no Reaper (would have ended up in the same circumstance if launched at the time) or slow Satellite tasking would have helped there.
I agree is should have had something like a Pilot Aware or Mode S transponder onboard which would have helped but it is all cost and no regs currently requiring them to. Plus at the end of the day, the aircraft would still be underwater.
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