If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#23
|
|||
|
|||
Bailout and survival kit
On Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at 5:55:10 AM UTC-7, Luc Job wrote:
For me it really depends on where you fly... The Nambia desert isn't the same as the Alps where SAR is available within minutes... As soon as they are aware of an emergency. What is my absolute minimum to carry in my pockets is a knife and the loudest whistle you can find. Even in the Alps the cellular coverage is doubtful... And I'm still using the phone to fly, so it's not on me... But it's quite likely that anywhere in the mountains some ears will be in range of a good whistle. I learned this a long time ago, a friend of mine spend 3 days in the debris of his glider, with both legs broken, drowned into a thick fog layer that formed from wet maritime air flowing through the coast... On final glide, when he was able to notice that he was too far down the long valley after the pass to return and crashed into the trees... Even the ELT was broken at impact... SAR operations were impaired by the fog and could only take place on ground and started the same day at the right place... approximately. With a whistle, he would have been found less than 1 hour after the beginning of the operation... They found him by chance, going down to stop the search... He fully recovered and is still flying, not without a whistle... A whistle is good for searches on the ground and within a mile of your location - airborne SAR won't hear it, but they can see a signal mirror. Better yet, carry a handheld. Tom |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Nadler Arcus Bailout | BG[_4_] | Soaring | 14 | February 15th 21 04:21 AM |
WTB Used airforce type bailout bottle. | Jonathan St. Cloud | Soaring | 9 | November 20th 15 05:19 PM |
Any details on the Uvalde mid-air / bailout? | Gary Emerson | Soaring | 19 | August 19th 08 06:06 AM |
Military bailout bottle refill | [email protected] | Soaring | 3 | June 30th 06 05:59 PM |
First Survivor of a T-28 Bailout? | Yofuri | Naval Aviation | 6 | September 10th 04 06:02 AM |