Originally Posted by
heliduck
Operations over jungle should have minimum requirements as for operations over water. Floats for water, Satellite tracking for jungle.
I don't think anyone could reasonably argue against that suggestion. For the time being it's not mandatory, but hopefully the operators will voluntarily roll out this technology fleet wide and maintain it as if it were mandatory.
Regarding floats over water, those rules are in place. The aircraft that was lost at sea in PNG in Feb 2011 didn't have floats (180 nm over water flight in a s/e helicopter) but it did have satellite tracking and its position was known immediately prior to it crashing into the sea and sinking. The ELT that was fitted to that aircraft was not detected.