Missing Rider in ID found

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May he rest. and always ride with with angles now.
You will be missed Donald.

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93Wing wrote:

Wonder if we could come up with an ELT for bikes????????

You aircraft folks know what that is, (Emergency Locating Transmitter)

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While I'm not aware of an ELT for bikes, there are two types of personal locators available. Here's a quick review of both from a hiker:



http://www.energyindustryphotos.com/a_guide_to_personal_locator_beac.htm



The SPOT allows you to send "I'm OK" messages fairly quickly and easily with a GPS location attached while the other one is strictly and emergency beacon. The problem with either of these is that you have to manually activate them. I'm not sure that Donald would have been able to. If you're hurt very badly in an accident I don't know that you'd be able to activate one of these devices.



On the other hand, If you have sent frequent updates from the SPOT, or get in the habit of doing one every 1-2 hours and then stop sending, that would be an indication to anyone tracking you that something may be wrong and also give a good indication of your last location and likely route, allowing search efforts to be more focused.