Thanks Desert Budgie. As far as the beacon goes, we fax off ELT reports every shift to the authorities, and then it is up to them to do something about it. Unfortunately here they don't seem to take them as seriously as they should and they just keep going until the battery runs out. In Oz if we get an ELT report, we get reports from all other aircraft in the area, telling us when they get the signal and when they lose it, did it come in intermittent or strong etc etc., and then the authority triangulate the responses to narrow down the search area and they go out and search for it. Here we say a guy got a report at this level in this place, and thats it. But I guess in Oz we are anal about SAR, and over do it like everything else. Honestly there is hardly a day at work where 121.5 isn't blocked by some sort of interference.
