Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite network capacity

Re:Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite ... by googlryas on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @06:34PM (#32758032)

Where are you flying out of curiosity? Flying over sparsely populated areas of rockies in Colorado, I very frequently have cell service. Having said that, nothing wrong with being prepared, I'm just curious about your situation. I might start doing that too. I always figured if I actually went down, landing would be the hard part, not staying alive once I landed.

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Re:Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite ... by Gh0stRAT on Thursday September 08, 2022 @03:32AM (#32762452)

Those full bars of coverage you had at altitude are probably going to disappear the moment you lose line-of-sight.

That said, aircraft have ELTs which are supposed to trigger on impact and can be manually activated as well, so an InReach probably wouldn't make a life-or-death difference very often.

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Re:Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite ... by oceanplexian on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @10:04PM (#32760141)

Utah and Nevada, for the most part.

There are lots of great places to land, but being stuck in the desert without any way to communicate is a very real possibility (Ironically, even at many small town airports I’ve landed at).

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Re:Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite ... by GekkePrutser on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @07:10PM (#32758453)

Of course that's the hard part. But if you do survive the landing you'll be very glad you have communications available :)

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