quote from MT
The thought never even occurred to me that I would need SPOT for anything other than sending "I'm OK" messages. Now I want to be able to call a floatplane if need be instead of SAR.  [/quote]

IMO we need to really grasp what MT has learned. Think too about our loved ones back home. The agony they will go through until SAR can give them a status report on why we called them in.

I carry the Sat phone so I am better able to handle my own problems. I have said many times that with a GPS and a Sat  phone they will at least know where to look for my body. In a worst case scenario it would make everyone's life easier.