Survival Equipment: Pack for a Crash Landing in the Wilderness (Air Safety Institute)

[Neal]

I wear a helmet, I wear a survival vest. Do you?

Edit: I also keep survival gear in the cargo pod from a tent, water packs, and my tacnets have first aid, snake bite, etc.

 

[ve6yeq]

I wear the Lift Aviation AV2.1 helmet with the LightSpeed Zulu H-MOD headset fitted. As it seems like I am often flying over water, I mostly wear a Switlik Survival Products X-Back MOLLE Aviation Life Vest, to which I attach the Garmin InReach Mini 2. The survival kit and medical kit, as required by Transport Canada, are in the extended luggage to keep the W&B back if it is just me in the plane.

I have thought of wearing a survival vest, but I have not really worked out how to make it work with the life vest. I guess I just need to pack a few MOLLE pockets with the bare minimum, then get a normal MOLLE vest I can move the pockets to when I am not flying over water.

This discussion reminds me that I need to find somewhere to do the periodic inspection and test of the life vest.

 

[Tsquared]

I upgraded my helmet to a LIFT AV2 helmet last year. Not cheap but more comfortable and lighter than my old Helmet.com one. I usually wear a survival vest if I’m flying beyond the metro area. My vest has a ACR PLB and my Garmin InReach mini 2 is hanging on a carabiner plugged into a wing root power port. I’ve also got fire starting, snacks, water and a small trauma kit in the vest as well. I also have a few tourniquets and seat belt cutters stashed where they can be easily reached from the front seat.

Like Neal, I’ve got enough stuff in my cargo pod to last a few days (assuming no life threatening injuries) out in the middle of no where.