It's just that after every accident we have to hear a reporter announce that "the pilot never filed a flight plan", as if he did, this never would have happened.

I and my friends never file a flight plan! We do watch each other travel across the country on the spot.

I personally threw all my friends into emergency mode when a friend was coming back to Maryland from Washington state in an Aircam. The monitor was on and in the kitchen for all to see. He was moving 2 MPH in the thick wooded Smokey Mountains. I could have sworn he was down and on foot. Come to find out he had a serious headwind and that was his ground speed while he was airborne. Aircams don't move fast and with the right winds can move backwards!

Don't go by me! I have very little faith in government. I would very much rather no one call Uncle Sam to come look for me, just call the boys in Ohio, (Greg, John and the Boys)

OMFG! Here we go again with the whole 406/Spot/flight plan/SAR.....great..