“ I don’t understand that. If he did fear a fire, enough to ditch a working aircraft, why not prepare for ditching”
With fire you only have 3min to be on the ground/water before you lose everything but yes it should be fine going for an emergency descent then flying level at 500ft with a working aircraft, you you should not stay at 12000ft but you should not go into water
There was a PA28 that ditched in the English Channel after an electrical failure with IMC, the PIC decided to ditch, while I understand the loss of navigation and comms does not work well with going to terrain, I think ditching near the beach is still advisable rather than halfway between Jersey to IoW
Does anybody know who services “Revere Aero Compact” 4 person life rafts in the UK?
Preferably the South West but and with a fast turn around time but I suppose it can be shipped each way.
Thanks in advance for any recommendations.
South Eastern Marine in Basildon
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Yes; SEMS in Basildon is the company of choice in the UK.
From abroad one has the problem of a raft being “hazardous goods” and I have met up with some pilots who dropped theirs off at Shoreham and I sent them off for them.
We have the problem with “hazardous goods” – we swap the life raft while doing our annual in England (and I’m always nervous about it – we typically only spend 4 or 5 days across when doing this so the courier with the raft exchange better show up on time!) SEMS are very good.
Does anyone know a distributor/shop to buy a Winslow Life Raft in Europe? Google is not particularly helpfull …
(You can send a PM if openly posting shops here is regarded advertisement)
I have this and no longer use it. It needs an overhaul.
It is fine to post shops’ names etc. It is an issue only if the poster works in the shop and is posting stuff pretending he is a happy customer – we had people doing that with avionics
Here in the UK, I would suggest looking here: One is here but I see they no longer sell Winslow. I bought one of these recently. Another is here but I see they also no longer sell Winslow. Finally contact these and ask if they have any overhauled ones; I use them for overhauls periodically.
Re shipping to Germany – may be problematic due to the compressed air cylinder, and packages from the UK are now being “checked” (sat on for a week, with no checking) by mainland Customs
loco wrote:
I have this and no longer use it. It needs an overhaul.
Interested. PN sent.
Try
Olaf Prestin
SOSTECHNIC
Sicherheitsausrüstung GmbH
Eckernförder Str. 163
24116 Kiel / Germany
Tel. +49 431 66728441