Does anybody know how much On-Star costs and would
they consider taking on
aviation customers? It's got to beat ELT.
JJ Sinclair

What I don't get is why someone doesn't just make
an ELT that speaks the GPS coordinates (and
tail #, etc. entered by the user) over the 121.5
frequency.

No decoding, no satellites, just an ELT that
also has a voice and tells it over the 121.5 freq
every few minutes. Mate a $100 GPS to a
$200 ELT to a text-to-voice device. Doesn't
this seem much simpler?

And talk about easy to find the false transmissions!
Heck, you got the coordinates AND the tail number?
Shouldn't be hard to find THAT guy at the airport
bar...