On Saturday, July 4, 2015 at 8:42:02 AM UTC-7, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
An airplane can fly over someone is distress and drop flowers, a helicopter can actually stop and assist.

Tell that to a Husky pilot!

Flying back home from OR one day with the wife, low over NV's Black Rock desert, I spotted what looked like a body on the playa.

(skip over many details here)

Bottom line, we landed, guy was still barely alive, and so we called an airliner overhead and asked for a relay to Reno approach and a helicopter ambulance.

Story actually made AOPA's eMag but little else.

Had we not been flying at a couple of hundred feet over the desert, we never would have spotted him as all he had on was khaki pants that blended in pretty well with the alkali lake bed.

Okay, we did get a helicopter to assist, so that part is valid I guess. But we "assisted" the guy with water and the shade of a Husky wing while we waited for almost an hour for the helicopter to arrive.

bumper