Jon Johanson stranded in Antartica....

(Robert Bonomi) wrote in
ervers.com:

In article ,
ET wrote:
"Jimmy Galvin" wrote in
:

You can offer all apologies all you want but only for yourself.
Don't talk for me. I feel that he took a chance for glory, self
promotion, stupidity, or whatever and ended up with his tit caught
in the wringer. It is not up to me and my tax dollars to bail his
sorry ass out of the jamb he inflected on himself. This goes for all
those fools that climb mountains, trek through caves, or go
exploring in the woods relying on a GPS with 1/2 dead batteries to
guide them along. They should all just be left to their own devices
and hopefully receive a Darwin Award for their efforts.


Yeah, but to not even sell the guy fuel is bad form......

*WHY* ??

I'd suggest it is far _worse_ form for the PIC *not* to have "made
sure of" the necessary resources =in=advance=/


If a pilot makes an "emergency" (or otherwise) landing in a farmer's
field, is that farmer obligated in any way to sell him fuel from his
farm holding tank, so he can fly the plane back out?

What, if *anything*, is different about the two scenarios?

Presumably, Jon *knew* he was going to need fuel when he got there.

WHY DIDN'T HE MAKE ADVANCE ARRANGEMENTS to ship _his_own_ fuel there?

What 'flight services' were listed as available at that location?
Betcha it's "no services".




If that farmer had fuel to sell, yeah! I would. I'm not saying they
have too, I'm just saying they are being first class d$cks by not doing
it.

--
ET


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