Here’s my question - Why, in the age of satellite communications, are we not tracking the position of airplanes at least once a minute via satellite? I have a Delorme InReach that lets me send a tracking signal with my gps coordinates via the Iridium satellite network once every 10 minutes for ~$25 a month, plus 2-way texting. Take out the 2-way, update the rate to once every minute (or maybe more), and if nothing else, you’d greatly reduce your search area. Yes, you’d still have however long it was since the last received message to cover, but that still provides you a much smaller area to search than what is being talked about here.
