On Jun 4, 10:22*am, "Robert Swinney" wrote:
Excite today carried a piece re. the S. American crash and location of planes over the ocean. *It
went on to say that radar can't see beyond about 200 miles (let alone the fact that bending radar
coverage beyond LOS is pretty remarkable in its own right). *Some dip**** was quoted that he can be
tracked on his Blackberry and doesn't understand why it can't be done with *planes. *Testimony to
what the public is led to believe by TV and movies.

In fact ACARS messages report back latitude/longitude from GPS.

I may as well go around suggesting in the news media that cars be
equipped with this remarkable new gizmo on the dash that will tell the
user how fast they are going.

Tim.