Just wait until you have to make the phone call to a wife/spouse that
their pilot hasn't come back to the field.....and you don't know where
that pilot is. Just wait until you have to launch rescue search
parties and hoping against all hope that you can get to the pilot
before they die. Personally, I would rather spend the $400 or $500
bucks to get an ELT rather than sitting somewhere in the mountains
waiting to see if anybody "noticed" where I had gone down. just my
thoughts. I have been there and hope to never be there again. I love
the sport, and don't want to see good pilots lost because they wanted
to push that little bit extra and didn't make it.