Backcountry Pilot

[Tick offline]

I think it would be cool if we put a card or something nice for the family of the pilot who crashed recently.

If you're interested, pipe up and we'll put something together.

[hicountry offline]

Sorry

[Zzz]

Guys,

It's a nice gesture to send something to the family of a fallen pilot, but there are so many of these accidents every year that you would be sending out a card every month. Why not a card to the families of the pilots of that Q400 that went down in NY last week?

At risk of sounding callous, I'd rather not make BCP the card-sending organization, and I'm certainly not going to delete a thread full of reasonable accident analysis. New and potential pilots learn the perils that await them by reading this stuff. If I ever die in a C170 fireball please discuss with abandon so that others can potentially avoid my mistakes.

A few years back we had a frequent poster, a pilot whom we actually knew, start a thread about 'what to do should you fly up a canyon and turn a corner to find that the canyon had ended?' He got many responses from how to execute a canyon turn, to the reasons for never being in that situation in the first place. A few weeks later he was dead after crashing his 172 into terrain while flying below ridgetop level up a canyon. A few guys from the site (Rob Burson and Bob White) had an informative plaque made that they hung at Johnson Creek in the guy's name. I thought that was a meaningful memorial.

It's an incredibly sad event and I can't begin to know what that family is feeling right now. However, I suggest we keep an appropriate distance.

[Tick offline]

Good point

[denalipilot offline]

A few years back we had a frequent poster, a pilot whom we actually knew, start a thread about 'what to do should you fly up a canyon and turn a corner to find that the canyon had ended?' He got many responses from how to execute a canyon turn, to the reasons for never being in that situation in the first place. A few weeks later he was dead after crashing his 172 into terrain while flying below ridgetop level up a canyon. A few guys from the site (Rob Burson and Bob White) had an informative plaque made that they hung at Johnson Creek in the guy's name. I thought that was a meaningful memorial.

Zane- Found this today

-DP