OK not to hijack this thread, but what you and Peter are saying about ELT's
has me confused. I assume the OP is talking about the standard,
been-around-for-twenty-years, 121.5 MHz ELT. How in the world would a
satellite orbiting thousands of miles above the earth pick up this signal,
let along get a fix on it? This is something I have never heard of.

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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wendy wrote:

Pretty much. There are multiple flavors of ELT, but the one most
aircraft has is pretty lousy. False activiations and failure to
activate are common. These old ELT's take two satellite passes
to get any indication and even those position reports are pretty coarse.
In fact, the support for satellite detection of these old elt's is
scheduled to be pulled in 2009.