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."

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Re:New Becons cost too much

[Rogan's Heroes]

So if you're already spending 15000, 20000 or 50000 dollars why wouldn't you just top it off with a 1200 dollar beacon? At that point is it REALLY that much more?