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via Jabawocky;
ADSB would be another great SAR tool, however the problem is...
The problem is...
"...ADS-B is designed primarily as a tool for managing scheduled commercial-flight traffic... ... it is not meant to hunt for missing aircraft. Says AFRCC program manager David Fuhrmann, the principal intermediary between his agency and Cospas-Sarsat: “The problem with ADS-B is it still uses a radio signal…. You can still have terrain masking. There are not going to be towers all over the U.S. So in remote areas, it won’t work. It will work at altitude, but if you descend, you could go many miles before crashing, and may not ever be visible by ADS-B.”
Lost in America | Flight Today | Air & Space Magazine
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