Flying blind?

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From: DonH
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:38

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What, in this day and age?
   A pilot gets blinded by cloud or fog, and crashes into side of a 
mountain - can this be avoided?
   Radar can see through atmospheric obscurity, and GPS-EPIRB can determine 
location, so what is the problem?
   It may be that air traffic controllers at an airport rely on sight and 
radar to spot a plane coming into their airspace, but surely an aircraft's 
location could be known, at all times, to airports, by coordinates - if the 
plane transmitted a unique signal?
   Then, if the plane was in cloud/fog, it could be told it is heading into 
a hillside, so elevation is necessary.
   As for search for a crashed plane, if all planes carried not only a black 
box, but a constantly transmitting beacon, then no problem.
  (I remember an instructor, in WWII, training pilots, per a Link Trainer, 
in how to fly blind.)

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