After a few days in the desert, you won’t care.
Peter wrote:
Also you can drink one and then pee into it
But be sure to differentiate between these two 
My reasoning is that if a big bottle splits in a crash, I have no water, whereas the likelyhood of 10 or 15 small ones all breaking is pretty remote.
Also you can drink one and then pee into it
Silvaire wrote:
My biggest fear in a situation like that is flipping over in an aircraft with little rollover protection.
Totally agree, hence my comment about leaving the gear up.
Silvaire wrote:
My next greatest concern would be heat and water.
Flying over the deserts here (not to Vegas, where you always are IFR, wether on instruments or not ), I carry an emergency bag with several small bottles of water and energy bars. Why small bottles? My reasoning is that if a big bottle splits in a crash, I have no water, whereas the likelyhood of 10 or 15 small ones all breaking is pretty remote.
My biggest fear in a situation like that is flipping over in an aircraft with little rollover protection. Ken Brock (a well known aircraft parts supplier) was killed that way in his T-18. My next greatest concern would be heat and water. Both issues support flying ‘IFR’ (I Follow Roads) across deserts.
It is great everyone walked away, so let me say it is poor form to shoot a video in portrait
Airborne_Again wrote:
Why? The gear breaking off would absorb some of the energy.
Sure it would, but in a desert situation like this one I’d be more concerned with flipping over. That terrain is pretty rough.
Which is exactly what appears to have happened, judging from the wheel at some distance from the wreckage.
172driver wrote:
I certainly would leave the gear up in a situation like that.
Why? The gear breaking off would absorb some of the energy.
It was a Beechcraft BE 23 Sundowner, N24580.
