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Where are you flying out of curiosity? Flying over sparsely populated areas of rockies in Colorado, I very frequently have cell service. Having said that, nothi
by googlryas 4y ago
Where are you flying out of curiosity? Flying over sparsely populated areas of rockies in Colorado, I very frequently have cell service. Having said that, nothing wrong with being prepared, I'm just curious about your situation. I might start doing that too. I always figured if I actually went down, landing would be the hard part, not staying alive once I landed.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoOf course that's the hard part. But if you do survive the landing you'll be very glad you have communications available :)
- oceanplexian 4y agoUtah and Nevada, for the most part. There are lots of great places to land, but being stuck in the desert without any way to communicate is a very real possibility (Ironically, even at many small town airports I’ve landed at).
- Gh0stRAT 4y agoThose full bars of coverage you had at altitude are probably going to disappear the moment you lose line-of-sight. That said, aircraft have ELTs which are supposed to trigger on impact and can be manually activated as well, so an InReach probably wouldn't make a life-or-death difference very often.