National Geographic channel Monday 5pm and
8pm PST is a program you might be interested in--"Lost in the
Nevada Triangle." Investigates the Steve Fossett crash and reports on the many (well over a hundred) aircraft accidents in NV that have never been located.

On Direct TV it's channel 276

bumper

Thanks Bumper!! I'll see if my sister gets that channel and record it for me. Is this the show your in?

Sweet! Got it set to record.

Preview

Looks like good footage.

Steve!!!!!

58Skylane wrote:Thanks Bumper!! I'll see if my sister gets that channel and record it for me. Is this the show your in?

Sweet! Got it set to record.

I don't think so . . . at least not the first one. Since they didn't so much as give me the DVD they promised for the first one, or tell me about this one, I'd be as surprised as anyone. Reckon I've had my moment of fame - - just can't figure out how come I didn't get Tiger Woods type perks. Wife probably wouldn't understand anyway - - she's funny that way.

Thought I'd offer up that it is Channel 186 on Dish Network.......Got it set up on the DVR already. Thanks for the tip Bumper!

Flynengr

Well, the first fifteen minutes have been spent exploring the possibility of UFOs and aliens causing airplanes to crash in the dreaded "Nevada Triangle."

Guess I'm lucky to be alive in such a dangerous place to fly. But, just to be safe, I'd better get my flashlight and go look for that alien probe.

Gump

GumpAir wrote:Well, the first fifteen minutes have been spent exploring the possibility of UFOs and aliens causing airplanes to crash in the dreaded "Nevada Triangle."

Guess I'm lucky to be alive in such a dangerous place to fly. But, just to be safe, I'd better get my flashlight and go look for that alien probe.

Gump

Alien probe? Take a gun in addition to that flashlight, or you could end up like Cartman!

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I got to see most of the program. I am a flat land pilot and have experienced some turbulence, updraft, downdraft between the tilled black fields and the cooler land surfaces. I can avoid turbulence and the updrafts by keeping distance from storm clouds and I have even flown in some convection currents in a glider out of Spearfish South Dakota but I have never faced the water fall effect of falling air at 3000' per minute like what dumps over the Sierra Nevada. How does any light single cross and what do the pilots of the area look for other than just keeping their distance.
Smart enough to say I don't know.

I watch the entire show. Very good!!

I didn't catch the whole show but from what I did see it should have been called the Sierra Nevada Triangle

In the end, it said Fosset flew up the canyon where he crashed. It's not a good idea to fly up a canyon, especially a narrow one. That's why we practice box canyon turns.

I don't know why someone as experienced as Steve Fosset would fly up a canyon. Maybe the show was incorrect?

Steve Fosset was certainly accomplished in many areas of aviation but he was not as accomplished in the area of mountain flying. It appears from the show that he may have encountered several factors that he was unable to deal with, and possibly no pilot could. The air flow charts showed the mountain wave effect was in place that day with its falling and rolling air down the east side of the Sierra Nevada and that combined with his own choice of which canyon to fly up was more than the pilot's skill level or plane's limitations in that situation could compensate for. Experience refers not only to the skill level needed to handle the plane, it also refers to a superior judgement level that prevents the pilot from getting himself into that situation. Consolation prize is the best we get for having to demonstrate the piloting skill it takes takes to make the crash landing slide up the mountain slope. However, that skill does not square things up with the mistake in judgement the pilot made that got him there. The value of what I take away from the show is that the biggest danger of flying at the edge of your own skill or judgement level may be not knowing that is where you are.