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Old 13th Mar 2014, 23:35
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PilotsResearch
 
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Mandatory GPS Tracking

General aviation aircraft have been doing this for years. I know of at least 3 vendors who offer such service at modest cost: Spidertracks, Spot, and InReach.

Basically, a unit on the a/c sends its GPS coordinates every 10 minutes or to so a satellite which relays it to the tracking company's servers.

The airborne unit often goes on the glareshield, and it includes its own battery that lasts for a few hours if power is lost.
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