19. Your Attitude! Having a positive mental attitude is often the difference between life and death in a survival situation. Be mentally prepared to survive in the wilderness for the rest of your life, or it might be the rest of your life!
55. Sighting Distance Average Visibility Object Distance Person in life jacket (open water or moderate seas) 1/2 mile Person in small life raft (open water or moderate seas) 3/4 mile Person in open meadow within wooded area 1/2 mile or less Crash in wooded area 1/2 mile Crash on desert or open plain 2 miles Person on desert or open plain 1 mile or less Vehicle in open area 2 miles or less
10.1.1 Objective 10.1 – Discuss the various types of ELTs.
Diagram and information adapted from NOAA Pamphlet, with the exception of 25 Milliwatt beacon. Note that hunting ELTs by signal alone will become much more difficult with less than 1/2 the power (inverse square law says less than 1/4 the effective radius from previous ELTs) but hopefully uncommon Food for thought: how common will the GPS portion of an ELT fail with the 121.5 beacon operating?? That’s anyone’s guess.
Your second most likely place to find a Bonanza. JOKE! I love Bonanzas. An aircraft like this is likely to have survivors-and they’ve likely already gone home and left the ELT operating! (I’ve seen this twice)
These pictures demonstrate the difficulty and low probability of detection of a purely visual search.
These pictures demonstrate the difficulty and low probability of detection of a purely visual search. A wrecked airplane is now clearly visible. Pilot’s note: don’t flare into the trees. Control the aircraft to the GROUND.
5.5 Objective 5.5 – Discuss how atmospheric and lighting conditions affect scanning.
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