That's Toto, btw.

Even blue sky vfr flyers have minimal instrument training, at least enough
to keep the sucker upright if they can keep their heads screwed on straight.
Most of us won't sign the bottom line on the recommendation form if we think
the student will scatter themselves (and worse, innocent passengers) across
the landscape if they get their tits in the wringer.

GPS won't list private or duster strips on their database, so the best you
can hope for is an ATC troop that has been on the local job long enough to
know the terrain.

First rule, don't touch nothin'. Somehow your machine flew itself straight
and level into this mess, let it keep on keeping on.

Second rule. Come to best glide speed and reduce power to keep the altimeter
steady.

Third rule. 121.5 and 7700. SOMEbody is going to hear you real soon. If
you are not in mountainous territory, there are damned few locations in the
country that don't have ATC coverage 3000+ AGL. If you ain't 3000+ AGL,
burn a little fuel to get there.

Hope to hell the ATC on the other end of the horn has a clue what's flat,
long, soft, and cheap to hit (in that order).

Jim
(who has been there twice, in the mountains, with zero warning, but not in
IFR)

"houstondan" wrote in message
oups.com...
rather than hijack a perfectly good arcane science thread; i'll start a
new one 'cause the core question is a darn good one.

hypothetical situation: you're a blue sky vfr flyer and somehow you
wind up in the soup - after having gone 2 hours and 200 miles from your
take-off point , you wake up from a nice little nap and discover you're
inside the milk bottle.

gps(not waas) says nearest airport of any kind is 30 minutes away and
gas-totalizer says the fan stops in 10 minutes.

not mountainous but you ain't in kansas either todo...whatcha gunna
do??

really.

dan