The AOPA Air Safety Institute has a free webinar coming up titled “After the Crash: Surviving an Aircraft Accident”.

You don’t have to be an AOPA or EAA member to sign up. It is totally free, and counts towards WINGS credit if that’s important to you.

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After the Crash: Surviving an Aircraft Accident
Of the millions of GA flights every year, only a few end with unplanned off-airport landings. But even though the odds of a crash are slim, the potential consequences are harsh—which is why smart pilots prepare and take basic precautions. From route planning and emergency rations to signal mirrors and sat phones, AOPA Air Safety Institute Manager of Aviation Safety Programs, John Collins, takes a user-friendly, common sense approach at maximizing your chances of survival and rescue after a crash.

Date: Tue, Aug 9, 2016 7:00 PM EDT

Registration Sign Up Link: https://goto.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1099734

I'm an old curmudgeon now, so I don't give a shit if I sound like a broken record and tell the same dumb stories over and over...

If you consistently fly in the boonies where there is a legitimate chance of having to sit out for a few days if something should break on your airplane... You owe it to yourself, and your pax, to get your survival gear gathered up, fly out to the middle of nowhere on a crappy wx day, and live off your gear for two or three days as an experiment.

No cheating, by packing for a fun camp out, Your survival gear.

It is a real eye opening experience, and I'm betting you'll really re-think your pack when done. I know I did.

And to repeat, my biggest take on the experience... Bring a big, thick, brain-dead book. Boredom was the biggest problem, and boredom could make a guy do really dumb stuff.

Gump

10x on Gump ++ their is a difference between survival gear and camping gear.

Copy that.

It's not a boring book but I keep a Bible in my survival pack. Might come in handy...

Great advice Gump. I need to do that with my buddies. I like a deck of cards in my survival kit.
David

Gumpair wrote:

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Boredom was the biggest problem, and boredom could make a guy do really dumb stuff.

Books are great.

For me, besides a book, a bit of copper wire and a tiny HF/VHF ham radio would keep me occupied for days. The radio gear nowadays is so light and tiny.



Here is an article on small portable ham gear: http://www.bugoutbagbuilder.com/bug-out-communications/

If I could make an abashed pitch for getting your ham radio license, here is the link: http://www.arrl.org/licensing-education-training

The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is sort of the AOPA for ham radio operators. Knowledge of Morse Code is no longer required.

I hope that the webinar is more useful than the live "live to tell" seminar that the FAA put on in Denver last year. The presenter was a nice enough lady who had obviously no experience whatsoever in living out of anything more rugged than a Holiday Inn Express. Visiting with other pilots there, all of us were disappointed that it was a really poor excuse for a survival seminar.

I have never had to really survive, other than a 3 day survival course that was part of the AFROTC summer camp curriculum. Even that wasn't a true survival situation, although we had to manufacture our tents and use basic bedrolls, and our food was minimal. I think an experienced camper would have a leg up in a real survival situation. But quite honestly, I hope I never have the chance to find out!

Cary