http://blog.aopa.org/leadingedge/?p=3048 A place to discuss safety-of-flight issues, procedures, techniques, and judgment. Sat, 18 May 2013 13:52:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.aopa.org/leadingedge/?p=3048&cpage=1#comment-51167 Tod Young Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:49:45 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/leadingedge/?p=3048#comment-51167 One other item of advice for VFR pilots: if you have a transponder (if you don’t, why?) turn it on and select the appropriate VFR code. Fossett would have been found before the bear got to him had he done that. It is even more important to do so if you’re zipping around mountains.

]]> http://blog.aopa.org/leadingedge/?p=3048&cpage=1#comment-51072 Jami Higdon Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:50:49 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/leadingedge/?p=3048#comment-51072 I have only ever taken my family flying with me. I always make sure to give a passenger briefing but I also admit to only given a basic briefing. I never thought about what would happen to my family if I was incapacitated from a crash. This is something that I definitely think all pilots should make sure to touch on.

]]> http://blog.aopa.org/leadingedge/?p=3048&cpage=1#comment-50856 Cary Alburn Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:50:17 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/leadingedge/?p=3048#comment-50856 As often as I fly with untrained passengers and have flown with them over the last 4 decades, until just yesterday looking at the ASF video about giving post-crash information during the passenger briefing, I admit to never having given post-crash information. But I will do so from now on–although I think I’ll avoid the term “crash landing”–sounds a bit too ominous, and could be better replaced with “off airport landing” or similar.

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