"Jon Kraus" wrote in message
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I appreciate you telling the story... I have certainly read several jsut
like yours.. They are make the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
Thanks for sharing Matt.

Jon Kraus



Glad to share!

What I was hoping to do was encourage others here to tell their stories of
screw-ups and how they managed to survive. Rather like Flying Mag's "I
learned about flying from...".

We hear the reports of accidents, so I thought it might be beneficial to
hear the stories of accidents avoided at the last moment.

In my case, the "punch line" is "Don't fly when fatiqued".

Like I said, I was lucky -- 15 more minutes or so and I would have dug a big
crater. In this case of falling asleep, running out of gas would have been
the least of my worries. I still had probably 40 gallons/2.5 hours of fuel
aboard, so the crater I would have dug would have been accompanied by a big
fire ball.

This was the second time in my life I was "lucky". When I was in my 20's, a
bullet ricochet literally parted my hair. I figure not to tempt the Fates
any further.

Along those line, anoyone got any good ghost stories? :~)



Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO


Matt Barrow wrote:

"Jon Kraus" wrote in message
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Sounds like the grace of God to me... Well placed bit of turbulence my
ass.... Somone was looking out for you...



Maybe...but I was over the eastern slope of the Rockies, so turbulence
is
rather common that time of day. Even at 10,500 I was only about 2000
feet
AGL when roused from my slumber.