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February Deadline For Emergency Beacons Approaches
An anonymous reader writes "In two weeks, older emergency locator beacons will no longer be monitored by satellites. USA Today noticed that 85% of private aircraft in the US have not switched to the 406 MHz beacons. I thought I'd send up a flare about this. And this should not be relevant to the airplane which landed in the Hudson River today, as that was a commercial plane and its location was known by a number of bystanders, one of whom helped crash TwitPic."
I've re-checked and it's all there.
Right between the emergency eggs and the emergency beer.
Thankfully, due to timezones, yesterday can be today, today can be tomorrow. Possibly (although I'm not sure) tomorrow can also be yesterday. This is also the case when abusing drugs, which is not surprising, considering that the guy who invented timezones was probably doing said abuse.
"....helped crash TwitPic"
/.'ed the thwitpic.com website.
His servers couldn't handle the traffic of people trying to get the pictures, now you have succesfully
When you've had your plane for a decade, and it's all paid for, do you really want to spend $1200 (and our flying club was quoted more like $2500 installed) at a time when avgas is still at near record highs
Perhaps the government could pitch in $40 towards a converter box that makes the old beacons compatible with the new system, but doesn't function nearly as well as purchasing a whole new beacon. This $40 will be in the form of a coupon that can only be used to buy the converter box, and it can't be used towards the purchase of a new, and functionally superior, system.
Of course these coupons will become very popular as many people have old beacons that work just fine and can't justify the cost of a new one. The government will underestimate the demand for the coupons and run out of money for the program.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
Consider also the consequences of getting it wrong. If your TomTom is off by 100 metres, you park in front of the wrong house. If my Garmin 530 is off by 100 metres, I crash into a mountain side and die.
So what you're saying is - all terrorism could be fixed by just making sure the terrorists have lousy GPS systems? That sounds like a cheaper solution than all this TSA crap.
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.