Navigation strategy on a short flight

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"Stephen!" wrote:

WARNING!! These pictures are *NOT* recommended viewing for those who pee
their pants when they think of flying across open water in a single
engine aircraft!

http://imagesdesavions.com/xcntry/nmi/index.html

Impressive! What kind of safety equipment do you have on board for that?
That does seem scary to me, but it's comforting to think that at least
the water is probably decently warm.

--
Mike Ash
Radio Free Earth
Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon

Mike Ash wrote:
In article ,
"Stephen!" wrote:

WARNING!! These pictures are *NOT* recommended viewing for those who pee
their pants when they think of flying across open water in a single
engine aircraft!

http://imagesdesavions.com/xcntry/nmi/index.html

Impressive! What kind of safety equipment do you have on board for that?
That does seem scary to me, but it's comforting to think that at least
the water is probably decently warm.


I think you do well to be scared.
A flight over water means that the worst moment is half way.
It is then that given the option, you should be high enough
to glide ashore. A flight required to stay low for a
57 mile trip had better have at least a lifejacket and an
ELT or some such.

Brian W

On Jun 30, 4:56*am, brian whatcott wrote:

I think you do well to be scared.
A flight over water means that the worst moment is half way.
It is then that given the option, you should be high enough
to glide ashore. * *A flight required to stay low for a
57 mile trip had better have at least a lifejacket and an
ELT or some such.

I don't know about scared but I certainly know about being prepared
when over water.
Then the only 'where I was' was the Flight Plan and radio and
floatation gear an inflatable life vest.
Accompanied by automatic rough as I got further from land.
Briefing friends/pax before any cross Cook Strait flight always
brought it home to me the picture the media has of anything smaller
than a B747 being a 'small' and therefore inherently dangerous
machine to 'brave the elements in'

In article ,
"Stephen!" wrote:

Mike Ash wrote in news:mike-6301E3.00192329062010@62-
183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi:

http://imagesdesavions.com/xcntry/nmi/index.html

Impressive! What kind of safety equipment do you have on board for that?
That does seem scary to me, but it's comforting to think that at least
the water is probably decently warm.

Every flight more than gliding distance from the shoreline had me
carrying a four-man raft with full provisions and wearing an inflatable
life vest. I also never fly without a hand-held radio and cell phone. The
cell phone wouldn't have done much good 50 miles off shore but the raft,
vest, and radio woulda been handy.

Excellent. I'm sure that helps give some peace of mind, although I'd
definitely want to avoid using that equipment if possible....

This was in the days long before SPOT tracking but if I were flying
around there now, I'd likely have one.

I fly with a SPOT. I mostly use it for the tracking mode so friends and
family can know what I'm up to while I'm in the air, but its use for
emergency signaling helps give me peace of mind. It's definitely a neat
piece of technology.

--
Mike Ash
Radio Free Earth
Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon