Also having a transponder on and switching it 7700 on the way down may activate SAR I should imagine......
You can get some nifty small EPIRBS from the USA with dual frequency and GPS built in. About £350 delivered to your door in the UK....about £650 bought in the UK
As IO says, they are simply switching freqs but monitoring of ELTs will continue. Mate of mine bought himself an ELT just before they annouced this so had to swap it - DOH!
It was not ML was it? I wondered why he sold it to me so cheap, doh....
