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Originally Posted by hud 91gt
I don't have a fancy degree, just a college diploma from a tiny little college. But it doesn't take a whole lot of book smarts to figure this out. The technology is there. Someone has to act on it.
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Ok, so the tech exists, at least for ground use. I'm assuming it's fairly new, so even if they want to implement it in aircraft there's all the steps Soundy listed they need to get it through. Even if the governing bodies decided that this was going to be implemented, it's not going to happen with any sort of speed anyways. Since this would only make a plane easier to find, and not actually safer, by the time it could be implemented other things that actually improve safety will be employed and planes will be better still.
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Originally Posted by Soundy
Besides, even if it does help me find the wreckage, the plane is still down; I still have to replace it.
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Exactly, and this may sound harsh, but more likely than not everyone on that plane is dead regardless of whether you know where they died or not. Unless people are stealing planes or taking them for detours on the company dime (presumably why you would put these systems in trucks) the only use in the air would be to find a plane that disappeared. Using the existing systems, out of all the flights in the world, how many go missing? On top of that, the GPS systems still aren't going to be flawless. So if there's power failures or the plane explodes you're not going to get a signal from it. And then of the planes that do go missing for an extended period of time, how many have survivors? If you're searching for a hiker or snowmobiler you're looking for someone still alive, if a plane goes down in such a way that it can't be found, chances are pretty slim that anyone survived.
TL;DR - You're talking about adding an extremely expensive to implement system that would rarely be needed that doesn't actually make planes safer (since it would only help finding badly crashed planes), and could even make them less safe if they cause interference. That would be a hard sell to the airplane regulation makers IMO.