Speechless. Nothing wrong with 121.5 ELT by its self and/or with other requirements. Over flying air carriers and GA acft have picked up this VHF ELT many, many times from downed pilots. Senseless action.... but in keeping with BHO main plan.
While I don’t like the slamming of 406MHz ELT onto GA rather than let the market transition away from 121.5 MHz on their own, the facts are that 406 units and the satellite monitoring system provide a much quicker detection mechanism and a smaller recovery zone to search.
Talk to some CAP pilots who fly the SAR missions.
406 makes this much easier.