Now available online is the recording of a Nov. 18, 2021, webinar presented by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Air Safety Institute, “Back to the Backcountry: 2021 in review.”
Part of the Air Safety Institute’s Backcountry Safety Initiative, the free webinar took a look at recent backcountry flight accidents in the effort to avoid them in the future.
“I think everyone can learn something from this presentation,” said Recreational Aviation Foundation President Bill McGlynn, who was one of the panelists on the webinar.
Also joining moderator Richard McSpadden, who is the executive director of the Air Safety Institute, were Safety Director for Idaho Aeronautics Tim Steffen, Dick and Patrick Williams, Utah Back Country Pilots President Roy Evans, Montana Pilots Association President Mike Vivion, STOL Bandits’ Joel Dopson, Mark Patey of Utah, and AOPA’s Alicia Herron.
You can see the presentation here.
Speaking of insurance, who pays for the plane that crashed when he took off after a precautionary landing at the airport because of low oil pressure. Did not resolve the missing oil problem, added enough oil to bring the oil level up. Then take off in the dark.
Didn’t get far.
Or the guy that hand props a 182, by himself, not tied down relying on the parking break. Moves forward hitting other things and damaging the airplane.
Answer we all do, and I don’t think that is fare to the feat of us.
I know that if I run my car engine out of oil and destroy the engine, I pay for it.
Kinda like giving a presentation to a pro football player on how not to get hurt. You play the game, you take the risks. Only in this case, these so-called backcountry pilots are messing with my insurance premium …