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The resin in a composite glider burns very well, but you'll need a loooooong
match :-) wrote in message t... COLIN LAMB wrote: One survival tool I take is my wooden glider. Good point. How easy is it to burn fiberglass? Should make light, heat, and SMOKE -- no? Jack |
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I know of one glass glider that burned because of a short in the electrical
system. Instead of using matches, just short the battery! "Bert Willing" wrote in message ... The resin in a composite glider burns very well, but you'll need a loooooong match :-) wrote in message t... COLIN LAMB wrote: One survival tool I take is my wooden glider. Good point. How easy is it to burn fiberglass? Should make light, heat, and SMOKE -- no? Jack |
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Just a reminder, _ALWAYS_ have a fuse mounted on the battery for just
such occurrences.... Larry Goddard "01" USA "Jim Vincent" wrote in message news ![]() I know of one glass glider that burned because of a short in the electrical system. Instead of using matches, just short the battery! "Bert Willing" wrote in message ... The resin in a composite glider burns very well, but you'll need a loooooong match :-) wrote in message t... COLIN LAMB wrote: One survival tool I take is my wooden glider. Good point. How easy is it to burn fiberglass? Should make light, heat, and SMOKE -- no? Jack |
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309 wrote: "I did hear a story of a lost glider pilot whose skeleton
was found in a very narrow crevice near Tehachapi. So "landout" glider pilots have perished." Just to clarify -- this story probably was about the paraglider pilot who was last seen flying normally near the launch site in 2003. His remains were found over 20 months later by some hikers. I have not read the coroner's report on this tragedy nor have I heard anything definitive on the cause. I personally flew my paraglider over this site many times at low altitude after his disappearance and never saw him - and I was looking! Apparently, his body and gear were hidden by the scrub brush common in the area. I have read that this location was "isolated" but it actually is near a very active an populated area. The exact location was a steep and extreme hillside but it was very close to a very active state highway. Steve |
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I read about the landout along the Allengany Mountains and imagined
the overnight survival adventure the pilot had. http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...41edf599cacc/#. It got me thinking about my own glider survival kit that I have built up over the years. My son will be hiking in the desert region of Utah and I shared with him what I had in my kit. I then decided to put together a small web site of the contents. Maybe sharing this will help someone in the future. See http://geocities.com/jhderosa/aviation/survival/ for details. Good luck out there. - John "67R" DeRosa |
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I would add few more items from my survival kit (most of them are
handy also in non emergencies): 1 - A fully charged cell phone. 2 - A spare cell phone battery. 3 - A handheld radio. 4 - A small handheld GPS if you don't carry a GPS ELT. 5 - A flare. I try to carry most of it on me for easy access and in case of a bailout. Ramy On Apr 19, 1:58 pm, ContestID67 wrote: I read about the landout along the Allengany Mountains and imagined the overnight survival adventure the pilot had.http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...wse_thread/thr.... It got me thinking about my own glider survival kit that I have built up over the years. My son will be hiking in the desert region of Utah and I shared with him what I had in my kit. I then decided to put together a small web site of the contents. Maybe sharing this will help someone in the future. Seehttp://geocities.com/jhderosa/aviation/survival/for details. Good luck out there. - John "67R" DeRosa |
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I would also add an adapter cables to power cell phones or handheld
VHF from the glider batteries. Preferably allowing them to directly plug into the battery even if everything else is destroyed. Since my own glider and our club gliders are standardized power connectors on Anderson Powerpoles it makes it easy to carry common adapters. I'd also add printing out a list of contact phone numbers for when the cell phone dies but you can walk to a farm house etc. I also have my personal list of emergency equipment posted at http://www.darrylramm.com/glider-survival-equipment. Darryl On Apr 19, 3:11 pm, Ramy wrote: I would add few more items from my survival kit (most of them are handy also in non emergencies): 1 - A fully charged cell phone. 2 - A spare cell phone battery. 3 - A handheld radio. 4 - A small handheld GPS if you don't carry a GPS ELT. 5 - A flare. I try to carry most of it on me for easy access and in case of a bailout. Ramy On Apr 19, 1:58 pm, ContestID67 wrote: I read about the landout along the Allengany Mountains and imagined the overnight survival adventure the pilot had.http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...wse_thread/thr.... It got me thinking about my own glider survival kit that I have built up over the years. My son will be hiking in the desert region of Utah and I shared with him what I had in my kit. I then decided to put together a small web site of the contents. Maybe sharing this will help someone in the future. Seehttp://geocities.com/jhderosa/aviation/survival/fordetails. Good luck out there. - John "67R" DeRosa |
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ContestID67 wrote:
I read about the landout along the Allengany Mountains and imagined the overnight survival adventure the pilot had. http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...41edf599cacc/#. It got me thinking about my own glider survival kit that I have built up over the years. My son will be hiking in the desert region of Utah and I shared with him what I had in my kit. I then decided to put together a small web site of the contents. Maybe sharing this will help someone in the future. See http://geocities.com/jhderosa/aviation/survival/ for details. I think your presentation is very helpful, John. I would add that under the heading of "Nylon rope (small diameter)" you might remind everyone that they have hundreds of feet of the stuff disguised as their parachute lines. Very strong, very available. Jack |
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ContestID67 wrote:
It got me thinking about my own glider survival kit that I have built up over the years. My son will be hiking in the desert region of Utah and I shared with him what I had in my kit. I then decided to put together a small web site of the contents. Maybe sharing this will help someone in the future. See http://geocities.com/jhderosa/aviation/survival/ for details. Thanks for that list. I have one suggestion: make sure the flashlight is an LED type. I found a metal body one that's 20 mm x 160 mm (3/4" x 6 1/4" in old money) and weighs 60 grams with batteries. The advantages are that its very tough, you can't break the filament by dropping it and it will run for much longer on its two AAA batteries than a conventional flashlight will on a pair of AA cells. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | |
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This thread prompted me to make a comparison test of my WWII vintage signal
mirror and a CD. I just went out into my back yard and aimed the reflected beams at various targets. In daylight, a signal mirror is an extremely effective device for getting attention. For those not familiar with them, a signal mirror is just a small mirror with a hole in it that you can look through to aim the reflected sunlight beam. It might help for you and your crew to know the Morse code SOS (...---...). An unrecorded CD is light and cheap although somewhat large to go in survival vest pockets. However, CD's are flexible enough that you hace to be careful not to distort it and diffuse the reflected beam. CD's, being plastic, will warp if left in an overheated cockpit. Even if not distorted, the reflected beam is not concentrated enough to see the atmospheric backscatter spot that lets you aim the beam at an overhead aircraft - at least not in the 'severe clear' conditions of my test. The WWII signal mirror is extremely flat and produces a tight beam whose backscatter spot is easilly seen against a blue sky so you can keep the beam on a moving airplane or car. There are many reports of this being seen 50+ miles away. I think I'll keep my vintage mirror. Bill Daniels |
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