Use Your Tools

As you may have seen in a recent safety column, I attended an aircraft crash survival course given by the FAA at the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute. In that course, one of the instructors gave an interesting statistic. If you crash and you have filed a flight plan, the time to rescue is about 24 hours. If you crash without a flight plan, the average time to rescue is 3 days! You might be thinking that doesn’t sound right. Looking at our great state of Minnesota, we do have some very sparsely populated areas with dense forest. If you’re thinking you will be found quickly because you fly in m...