Originally Posted by
gulliBell
Are we to assume the missing helicopter is not fitted with pop-out floats and it went missing over water? ELT's are effective 0% of the time if the aircraft sinks, unless you're really lucky and the ELT gets a ping off at impact which is captured by an overhead satellite.
I flew about 800 hours in that particular airframe and she didn't have floats then.
SND