"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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"Michael" wrote in message
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C J Campbell wrote:
This comes very close to the category of a non-critical emergency,
defined
as an emergency where, no matter what you do, you are going to die.

That's a hell of a defeatist attitude, and demonstrably wrong since
people HAVE survived exactly this situation.


Yes, and people have survived jumping out of the plane without a parachute
at 20,000 feet, too. But the odds are against it. Personally, I think the
way you deal with an electrical failure in IMC with no GPS or handheld
radio
is that you avoid putting yourself in a situation where that can happen.

IOW, "Don't fly in IMC"? I can see having a handheld GPS for redundancy, but
what is the usable range of a handheld radio, 5 miles?


In fact, self-flown business flights do not do this routinely, especially
in
single engine piston aircraft. They are less dangerous than personal
flights
because the pilots are better trained, the planes are better equipped, and
they are not going to kill themselves with low level VFR maneuvers, which
is
the biggest killer of GA pilots.

I think you're conflating "business flights" with "corporate aviation"
which is not a precise analogy.


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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO