Contact Approach...
I agree. If only it were that simple... The past few posts re ELTs and ULBs are a good example of why your perfectly sound idea doesn't work on these forums.
Somebody posts a quote from a newspaper (WSJ in this case), probably because they assume what is written in that article is "factual". A discussion then ensues based on completely wrong information about ELTs, first from the article itself, then made worse by answering another poster's question erroneously by citing that same article as a source of accurate info about ELTs and ULBs: where they are located on an aircraft, do they float, do ELTs transmit underwater, if so can the signal be received by a satellite, discreet ELT IDs (BTW... yes, one can tell what aircraft it's from) and on and on and on.
Which is why, with the utmost respect to the Mods whose job is so very difficult and frustrating, this should not be considered a "Professional Pilots Rumour Network" when reading this (Rumours and News) forum.
Sigh...
Last edited by grizzled; 26th May 2016 at 16:52.