InReach are the better solution for those instances?
Well yes. The InReach uses a satellite entirely. Not mobile phone
coverage. The SMS is sent to someone else's mobile via satellite so if
they have no reception, they cannot receive the message but anyone
else with reception can. Or anyone else
On 29/05/2015 10:23 AM, Erich Wittstock wrote:
Problem with spot is that you don't get feedback if your message was
successfully received.
I have my mobile phone number as one of the numbers Spot texts. Provided
you land with *minimal* phone coverage, it is comforting to know that
your
At 12:24 PM 10/06/2015, you wrote:
I leave out the adventure part here.
Adventure has been defined as something bad, happening to someone
else, a long way away.
Mike
Borgelt Instruments - design manufacture of quality soaring
instrumentation since 1978
www.borgeltinstruments.com
I have my mobile phone number as one of the numbers Spot texts. Provided you
land with *minimal* phone coverage, it is comforting to know that your
message has been sent.
Ditto. Spot can send 3 or 4 messages. You can use on to test the
system to your own mobile and another to send I've landed
All very good. But: imagine the following scenario - I got Spot for this
reason:
I out-landed in whoop whoop near an abandoned farm house. No, it wasn't
washing on the hills-line - it was lantana..
Despite all marketing promises I am out of mobile reception area even with
my quad-sim mobile phone.
Ah - adventure.
True - you are usually a long way away when it happens :-)
Proper pre-planning is required in order to stay on the increasing side of
the Yerkes–Dodson Law curve - otherwise it can turn bad.
I am not a thrill seeker. I push into the right hand side of that curve in
controlled
As long as you think about what you need and check ability against need you
many options could work well.
In practice, I’ve seen SPOT fail to deliver a help message, and worse, the
pilot had no idea this had happened. Without SPOT and no phone reception, first
option is glider chat
