[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Steve Dold wrote > > "This is an interesting point...how WOULD you get out of one > of these things if it flipped over? Wait for someone to come along?" > > I used to fly AH-1 Cobra's in the Army, they are set up with tandem seating > and the front seater exits on the left and the back seater exits on the right. > When AH-1's crash they tend to roll to one side or the other leaving one > person trapped and one able to get out. > > We had small hatchets in a holder on the side wall so the trapped person > could chop away the plexiglass and egress. (There was also a explosive system > which blew the side windows out and the hatchets were a back up) but if you > are concerned about flipping one over and being stuck then a small hatchet > might be worth bringing along. > > We also had an inverter switch but that just turned on A/C power..never > could get one to turn upside-down using the inverter <--joke > > thats my two cents > Steve Jones
One of those small military style folding shovels doesn't weigh much and
would easily fit in the luggage compartment.
Someone in this group reported not long ago that he had dug
himself out
of a flipped coupe. He was 6'5" tall and I assume he dug himself out
with just his hands although that wasn't stated so. Then he hitchhiked
to the nearest hospital to get taken care of. Luckily, contrary to the
AOPA article, his plane did not catch fire and he did not die while
trapped 'underneath' his coupe.
Bob Saville
N3396H 415C
Eugene, OR
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