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WHY DIDN'T HE MAKE ADVANCE ARRANGEMENTS to ship _his_own_ fuel there?
Using that rational, everyone should ship repair parts and tools to possible landing places like The Oshkosh convention just in case they have a problem. -- Cy Galley, TC - Chair, Emergency Aircraft Repair, Oshkosh Editor, EAA Safety Programs or Always looking for articles for the Experimenter |
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![]() Cy Galley wrote: WHY DIDN'T HE MAKE ADVANCE ARRANGEMENTS to ship _his_own_ fuel there? Using that rational, everyone should ship repair parts and tools to possible landing places like The Oshkosh convention just in case they have a problem. -- Cy Galley, TC - Chair, Emergency Aircraft Repair, Oshkosh Editor, EAA Safety Programs or Always looking for articles for the Experimenter Good one Cy, I like that thinking. :-) |
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In article l83Db.539930$HS4.4109702@attbi_s01,
Cy Galley wrote: WHY DIDN'T HE MAKE ADVANCE ARRANGEMENTS to ship _his_own_ fuel there? Using that rational, everyone should ship repair parts and tools to possible landing places like The Oshkosh convention just in case they have a problem. -- Cy Galley, TC - Chair, Emergency Aircraft Repair, Oshkosh *IF*AND*WHEN* Oshkosh has a _published_policy_ of =not= providing services, and there's nobody "in the neighborhood" who will, for hire, deliver services on site, then "yes", it'd be a *damn* good idea. The point is, you *CHECK*FIRST*. _IF_ services *are* available on-site, no problem. *IF*NOT*, you damn well better make 'alternate arrangements', "just in case". It's known as "insurance". There are only a couple of possible scenarios: 1) He *DID*NOT* plan for 'what to do' in the case of problems with the flight. Problems then developed, and he 'got lucky' and survived. 2) He _did_ consider 'what to do' in the case of problems, and McMurdo was a *planned* emergency alternative. If so, Johnson either didn't check on services availability, didn't care that it was published that services wee *not* available, or assumed the published rules "didn't apply" to him. In either scenario, I have a very difficult time seeing how is is _possible_ to consider the fault to lay anywhere _other_ than with Johnson. Looks to me like the issue is 100% of _his_own_making_. *DUE*TO*BAD*AND/OR*INSUFFICIENT* *PLANNING* for contingency situations. _Anyone_ who travels to/through/across "uninhabited" territory, by -whatever- means, better have plans for what to do 'if things go wrong'. It doesn't matter if it's flying across Antarctica, sailing across the Pacific, driving across the desert, or going for a hike in the mountains, the principle is the same. If those contingency plans involve "somebody else" bailing you out of a jam, it is STUPID _not_ to verify that they are 'ready, willing, and able' to do so, *before* setting out. Johnson appears to have failed badly at this basic element of project planning. |
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