New Orleans: Fly low and slow over Convention Center to air drop?

Let's try and keep this topic focused on getting an air drop arranged.

These people need water purification kits NOW. They have no drinkable
water. They are not being served by the rescue services. There is no
bottled water.

If I can't find someone here willing to step up and help, where should
I look for a pilot and plane?

The only thing you will get to drop is on your face on a runway with a
knee in your back. You are so far behind the curve I'm not even going
to waste time attempting to explain it to you... You get a blue star
for good intentions and definitely a zero for knowledge... Do a lot
more reading my friend.. Start with learning the meaning of what
restricted airspace is, and then look up what action you had better
take when an F16 fires a flare across your nose...

denny

I am familiar with restricted airspace. I live in Washington DC and
have seen his multicoloured maps of the area.

For New Orleans, obivously when the Pres visits or flies over is not
the time to be in the air space. I personally think he shouldn't visit
the area now. If he really does want to visit, he could slip in
'undercover' in a National Guard uniform. After he leaves if could be
made public.

As for being forced to land, I would take that and run with it
publically. It would embarrass the government that they haven't yet run
a few C-130's over the area and kicked out MRE pallets and water kits.

This is not rock science. At the current speed of evactions, many
survivers will be dead by the time a bus arrives for them.

Blanket the damn area with MREs and water kits from the sky.

The airspace has already been declared off limits and you're going to need
to pay me much more than your offer for me to risk my ability to fly for a
case of water. Oh, by the way, some thugs would probably just steal the
water and then try to sell it for whatever they could get for it and it
wouldn't meet the intended purpose.

Calm down and realize help is on the way.

Maybe more of these people should have heeded the warnings and "MANDATORY
EVACUATION" that was DIRECTED prior to the storm.


wrote in message
ups.com...
I am familiar with restricted airspace. I live in Washington DC and
have seen his multicoloured maps of the area.

For New Orleans, obivously when the Pres visits or flies over is not
the time to be in the air space. I personally think he shouldn't visit
the area now. If he really does want to visit, he could slip in
'undercover' in a National Guard uniform. After he leaves if could be
made public.

As for being forced to land, I would take that and run with it
publically. It would embarrass the government that they haven't yet run
a few C-130's over the area and kicked out MRE pallets and water kits.

This is not rock science. At the current speed of evactions, many
survivers will be dead by the time a bus arrives for them.

Blanket the damn area with MREs and water kits from the sky.

I did look the other day and the TFR was surface to 5,000. So no low and
slow. That settles it.
--
Chris Ehlbeck, PP-ASEL
"It's a license to learn, have fun and buy really expensive hamburgers."

"John Doe" wrote in message
news:ZvZRe.8401$8q.3935@lakeread01...
The airspace has already been declared off limits and you're going to need
to pay me much more than your offer for me to risk my ability to fly for a
case of water. Oh, by the way, some thugs would probably just steal the
water and then try to sell it for whatever they could get for it and it
wouldn't meet the intended purpose.

Calm down and realize help is on the way.

Maybe more of these people should have heeded the warnings and "MANDATORY
EVACUATION" that was DIRECTED prior to the storm.


wrote in message
ups.com...
I am familiar with restricted airspace. I live in Washington DC and
have seen his multicoloured maps of the area.

For New Orleans, obivously when the Pres visits or flies over is not
the time to be in the air space. I personally think he shouldn't visit
the area now. If he really does want to visit, he could slip in
'undercover' in a National Guard uniform. After he leaves if could be
made public.

As for being forced to land, I would take that and run with it
publically. It would embarrass the government that they haven't yet run
a few C-130's over the area and kicked out MRE pallets and water kits.

This is not rock science. At the current speed of evactions, many
survivers will be dead by the time a bus arrives for them.

Blanket the damn area with MREs and water kits from the sky.

Right, drop some pallets of water (about 7lbs per gallon) out of a moving
C-130 and stand back and watch the fun. If anything survives, one probably
would squash at least a few of those people who need the help.
The ugly reality is that these people don't live in the Hampton's and will
simply have to wait for help from their government.


wrote in message
ups.com...
I am familiar with restricted airspace. I live in Washington DC and
have seen his multicoloured maps of the area.

For New Orleans, obivously when the Pres visits or flies over is not
the time to be in the air space. I personally think he shouldn't visit
the area now. If he really does want to visit, he could slip in
'undercover' in a National Guard uniform. After he leaves if could be
made public.

As for being forced to land, I would take that and run with it
publically. It would embarrass the government that they haven't yet run
a few C-130's over the area and kicked out MRE pallets and water kits.

This is not rock science. At the current speed of evactions, many
survivers will be dead by the time a bus arrives for them.

Blanket the damn area with MREs and water kits from the sky.

wrote:
Let's try and keep this topic focused on getting an air drop arranged.
These people need water purification kits NOW. They have no drinkable
water. They are not being served by the rescue services. There is no
bottled water.

What makes you think those people you are going to airdrop to are smart
enough to understand how to use the kits to purify drinking water?

The kits have picture diagrams for usage on the packaging.

Once one person figures out how to make drinkable water, I'm sure
others will copy what he/she did.

wrote:
The kits have picture diagrams for usage on the packaging.

Once one person figures out how to make drinkable water, I'm sure
others will copy what he/she did.

The impression I get (albeit from 1200 miles away) is that we're going
to start seeing a real turnaround today and tomorrow as resources begin
to flood in. The moment for a "rogue" effort like this was probably a
day or two ago when the feds were still trying to find their asses with
both hands. As it is, there's a risk that doing something like this
will lead to a huge mess as officials overreact to the challenge of
their authority. It's a dman shame because even if a 172 can't pluck
someone off a roof, it can at least come down low and slow and drop
basic supplies. After the dust settles it would be a good idea to sit
down and think about how we could make it easier for the authorities to
utilize GA for disaster relief. I suspect most of them are barely aware
of our existence.

-cwk.

Isn't it interesting that just this morning, the the governor of
Lousiana finally issued the order to shot to kill looters.