On Saturday, August 29, 2020 at 11:50:32 AM UTC-7, BG wrote:
On Friday, August 28, 2020 at 9:15:35 PM UTC-7, 2G wrote:
On Friday, August 28, 2020 at 7:27:26 PM UTC-7, wrote:
The battery may have run out without his noticing and he could have flown for a considerable time after.
Yeah, the battery went dead on BOTH his InReach and his radio at the same time. The guy has been missing for six days in the desert w/o water. Maybe he get kidnapped by Martians...
We can all see his last InReach report ended at 14500 ft , but how do we know his radio quit at the same time?
BG
The radios they were using were consumer-grade 2-way radios of limited range (about 2 miles). At some point in their flight they couldn't contact Johnston/Oroc. They tried to contact Oroc with these radios on search aircraft unsuccessfully. His last fix near Ninemile Peak isn't that far from a farm with two crop circles that presumably had water (about 6 miles), and they have searched this area unsuccessfully with a FLIR-equipped helicopter (https://pvtimes.com/news/rescue-team...glider-88636/). So far, there has been no evidence of a discarded paraglider or emergency chute canopy. And now it has been 6 days with no sighting. People have survived longer periods, but they had access to water. It looks pretty grim.

Tom