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Old November 12th 06, 07:52 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jim Logajan
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Default pilots only, please - gps or altimeter?

"houstondan" wrote:
hypothetical situation: you're a blue sky vfr flyer and somehow you
wind up in the soup - after having gone 2 hours and 200 miles from your
take-off point , you wake up from a nice little nap and discover you're
inside the milk bottle.

gps(not waas) says nearest airport of any kind is 30 minutes away and
gas-totalizer says the fan stops in 10 minutes.

not mountainous but you ain't in kansas either todo...whatcha gunna
do??


Cut power and deploy the ballistic parachute.

;-)