REFLECTOR: Long trip - what to bring?

[Mark Magee]

Dave,
I understand. My point of a somewhat facetious posting was that when GA
aircraft go down, in the past 20 years in CONUS, we don't hear stories of a
failed survival hike that killed the aviators. If the aviator(s) die, it is
normally from the forced landing itself.  If we are flying at daytime, at
an XL's cruising altitude, you should have a good glide to some semblance
of a man-made something. If nothing else I'd glide toward a remote cell
tower in a National Forest. If night time and a power-out, things don't
look so good, but I'd still glide toward lights? No? Hello Synthetic
Vision!!!!
We speak not of over over ocean flight, just too much to cover.
Drinking water: mandatory.
Cell Phone: mandatory, modern day Tricorder to call in the SAR folks.
The rest, well we have to first survive the landing.
First aid kit.
GPS crash beacon probably the best and most important. High on my list of
upgrades, much better than old ELT's.
If you survive the landing relatively unscathed and had the items on my
earlier posted list, your probably good to go. If you're injured in the
forced landing, I'm not confident anything short of the cell phone (if you
can operate it),  water and a first aid kit, my Leatherman and the .45 for
vermin do much to prolong your existence.
How much (dead :)  ) weight do we carry at all times?
My $.02, FWIW.
I travel light.
And pray often....
Peace OUT.

Mark Magee
N34XL
Brady TX


On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Dave T Nelson <dtnelson at us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Mark, FWIW, living in Minnesota I've thought quite a bit about
> survivability in a forced landing situation.  I can take you places in less
> than two hours from my home airport where you won't see a road... or even
> anything human made, for as far as you can see.  I regularly fly out west
> (to Idaho)... Western South Dakota looks much like a moonscape... not many
> places to find a makeshift runway, let alone a road.  Last week we flew out
> east.... and I was reminded that much of western Pennsylvania looks just as
> tough when it comes to finding a place to land.  Part of the trip we took
> was over the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains.... not many places to land
> there either.
>
> Having the basics to survive until rescue comes just makes sense to
> me....,  BTW, when I go west, my .45 and two clips are also with me.
>  Flying over Glacier will do that to a guy.
>
> My two cents.
>
> Dave
>
> Dave T. Nelson
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>    On Jun 4, 2013, at 11:06 AM, Mark Magee <*edjonesbrady at gmail.com*<edjonesbrady at gmail.com>>
>    wrote:
>     I like all the survival kit ideas, but with the reality of a CONUS
>       forced landing not on makeshift runway (road), I just carry an iPhone, a
>       Leatherman, fire starter, a bottle of water and a .45 and two clips.... :)
>       KISS!!
>
>
>       Mark B. Magee
>       N34XL
>       Sent from IPhone 4S
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