satpak77
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Wanted to put this out there
For those of you who cross oceans and/or fly over desolate areas (this could include remote parts of USA), how many of you carry a commerically made or "home made" survival vest onboard?
This might include handheld GPS, knife, etc.
For the over-water guys, how many of you have gone out on your own, or convinced your flight department, to buy a Type 1 (unconcious person will have head kept face up) vest and maybe installed a locator beacon light to it and other stuff?
I was in the FBO lounge the other day in KFLL and asked some corporate guys this who were headed to Brazil in a Global. "We gotta raft back there" was what they told me.
I know modern turbine equipment is 99.9999% reliable, plus if you crash land a Global in the rain forest you probably aint going to be around to build a camp fire, yes I recognize that, however I still support the survival vest idea.
Comments from other operators?
thanks
For those of you who cross oceans and/or fly over desolate areas (this could include remote parts of USA), how many of you carry a commerically made or "home made" survival vest onboard?
This might include handheld GPS, knife, etc.
For the over-water guys, how many of you have gone out on your own, or convinced your flight department, to buy a Type 1 (unconcious person will have head kept face up) vest and maybe installed a locator beacon light to it and other stuff?
I was in the FBO lounge the other day in KFLL and asked some corporate guys this who were headed to Brazil in a Global. "We gotta raft back there" was what they told me.
I know modern turbine equipment is 99.9999% reliable, plus if you crash land a Global in the rain forest you probably aint going to be around to build a camp fire, yes I recognize that, however I still support the survival vest idea.
Comments from other operators?
thanks
