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What's Your Plan? Building Your GA Survival Pack


Buster1

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I carry a go-pack at all times.  It's about 8 lbs and lives on my hat rack.   My first trip in my new to me mooney was the southern transcontinental route- so it's designed for mostly warm weather and I put cold weather stuff separately as necessary.  I always bring a couple of days worth of water wherever we go.  I tell my family that we should bring clothing to be able to stay outside depending on the season. The blog post was pretty useful and gave me a couple of better options for signaling than I have and some better water purification methods.  

My PLB is in my pack. 

First aid is important 

Shelter and warmth are important 

Water availability and purification is critical 

So is fire starting  

I stuff my old ELT batteries in my pack  

Since moving forward the south - my latest pack addition is some 100% DEET  

 

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 A bic lighter is always in my pack.  Storm matches and a blast match in there as well but that is last on the list for getting a fire going.  Also look for some magnesium ribbon on amazon.  Coil up some of it and put it in with your cotton balls.  it makes starting damp wood very easy.  Oh and a flask of Jameson.  No survival value but it gives me something to do while i wait for rescue. 

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8 hours ago, Hank said:

Dryer lint in a ziploc baggie is much better fire starter than cotton balls. Plus its both abundant and free . . . . And burns like nobody's business,  right now!

Take cotton balls and rub Vaseline in them. They will squish down very small, when you need one fluff it out really well and one spark will get it burning and it will burn long enough to get a fire going. In Boy Scouts I had one of those silver waterproof match cases stuffed with about 10 of them. That along with the standard magnesium fire starter made started many a campfire for me.

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Someone asked if I was able to run supplies over to Beaumont.  They pointed out that the convoy would have an armed escort.....   I was in my truck and did a quick inventory figured I had 100 rounds in various forms in reach.  We come from the "One Riot One Ranger" state.   Responded I'm good.

#wegotthis

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I keep blankets in the plane 'cause my wife gets cold in cruise. We always have a bottle or three of water. A Leatherman is in my Rubbermaid toolkit, a multiblade knife in the front seat pocket and a Swiss Army knife is in my pocket all the time except when traveling the airlines. Your other items look quite useful, and we've debated getting the mylar Emergency blankets, but those water filter straws are something I've never heard of. Interesting . . . . .

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On 9/10/2017 at 9:25 PM, Hank said:

I keep blankets in the plane 'cause my wife gets cold in cruise. We always have a bottle or three of water. A Leatherman is in my Rubbermaid toolkit, a multiblade knife in the front seat pocket and a Swiss Army knife is in my pocket all the time except when traveling the airlines. Your other items look quite useful, and we've debated getting the mylar Emergency blankets, but those water filter straws are something I've never heard of. Interesting . . . . .

I keep a sawyer in my hiking pack which I almost always use for packing for short plane trips up to ten days or so,  I guess I have that with me.

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