Who carry's what ?

[Morph]

Years and years of biking and a softness who asked the same questions

[3wheels]

Some very interesting must have's we could put together here .

zucac - flares & that all important snack bar
Big D - 4 L water in wine sack - If you were in the cape I would suspect it to be a " 5L pap sak "
Ranger - Fuses ( is that for when the softness flies with ?)
Demon - lucky corkscrew and condom !! Just won't go there now will we
Tsotsi - draad & spare crank ( only when flying close to 300 hours )
Bad Nav - whole engine ( great sales rep's car - Rotax must be doing well)

[Morph]

Let me tell you guys the water is hugely important as is a working, fully charged cellphone.

Case in point, my recent accident at Altona.

Altona is merely 8miles away from Morning Star, it is a secluded unpopulated farm strip. As the BB had just been finished I hadn't put any tools or my water in it yet.

I called finals, touched down, front wheel decided to leave, and after an intense few seconds I ended up, upside down. The aircraft antenna was previously on the roof, was now snapped off underneath the plane rendering the radio useless. (carry your spare rubber antenna if you have a handheld).

I took out the medical kit, cellphone, found my glasses crumpled up on the roof and I found a nice cool place to sit, far away from the potential explosion and called Skidmark for help.

By this time I was dying of thirst, the shock, heat, whatever and I didn't have any water. Skid arrived 40 min later and he didn't have water. Pink Floyd arrived another hour later and he brought me some energades to drink. I tell I was going nuts. 2 hours only, and I was prepared to drink anything. Even the cow water trough was empty.

Now imagine a remote crash, you are injured so can't go look for water. Man it really opened my eyes.

[grostek]

Good thread with excellent advice all round.

Travel prepared.

Gunter Rostek

[swiftprop]

Although I don't own an aircraft yet I go on cross country trips now and then and take all or most of the following if in a closed aircraft:

To wear (winter full list):
Wool socks, leather boots, flying overall, t shirt underneath, gloves, cap/ beanie, scarf, long johns, warm jacket,

In Pockets:
swiss army knife and sharpener, Leatherman, protein bars, signal code, mirror with little hole (a la army) waterproof matches, cell phone

Baggage:
Min 4 l water in different tough water bottles, survival book (Ron Reid-Daly) 1,5 m plastic pipe, signal strips, sleeping bag, space blanket, black rubbish bags, rope, toothbrush and hunting knife (can also dig a water still with it)

[Aerosan]

I used to have a made up bag behind the seat with everything that Morph has including a small shifting 2m spare fuel hose, clamp and pratley steel.

[ACE]

For more local flying I have a "fly-away" bag containing most of what's been mentioned already,

Don't forget extra two-stroke oil !!! whatever brand you prefer (that's another debate)

Extra Carb Jets, spare fuel filter, some soldering wire, the radio's little rubber aerial, cell phone car charger if you have a cig lighter socket on your panel, spare rechargeable batteries for GPS, a small torch.

All the appropriate documentation in a seperate folder as covered in another thread.

I also have a Cadac Stainless Steel flask for coffee

My 2c worth

[craig]

All very interesting ,i carry some of the above plus a basic first aid kit ,and a small smoke bomb as well as a pencil flare (from any boat shop),also tie down pegs and rope ,extra 2 stoke oil ,duck tape

[ACE]

Here's a list made up from all the input in this thread so far - very comprehensive isn't it ??

batteries AA rechargeable
black refuse bags
cable ties
carb jets
carb rubbers
cell phone & charger
duct tape
flares
fuel filter
fuel hose
fuel siphon pipe.
fuses
inner tube
insulation tape
lucky corkscrew and condom
maps
medical aid kit including a silver space blanket.
mirror with little hole (a la army)
multitool, like a leatherman
pegs, ropes and hammer
tie downs.
pratleys - steel, putty, quickset clear etc
rope
selection of spare nyloc nuts, bolts and split pins
shifting spanner
signal strips
sleeping bag
snack bars
soldering wire
spanners 10,11,12,13 mm
spark plugs, plug spanner and feeler gauge
survival book (Ron Reid-Daly)
torch
tyre gauge
tyre pump
tyre weld
v belt (503)
water 2 - 4 litres
waterproof matches
wire

[Ranger]

So how do you fit the trike around all this?

Seems like a long list but if you chose lightweight materials and the nesseccary quantities and lengths then it could easily be stowed away.

[Wargames]

Hi,

Please remember your emergency strips.
It must be 4 strips of 60cm x 2.5m.

These strips must be on aircraft if you do x-country of more than 20nm from base.

After comprising the list, can someone then please create schedule of the "how to get it in airplane" manual. Please don't let CAA get their hands on this manual, otherwise we will start seeing PART 24(z) being pushed up our noses.

Please add some KY-jel for gaylord as well.

[Morph]

And a partridge in a pear tree

Just weld hooks all along the frame so you can hang your plastic checkers bags from them

[Boer]

All the above very usefull, My softness knows that these are nessasary and she also knows that because of all this she is only allowed 3 g-strings because the granny panties would be too heavy and it would take us over the max full up weight.

[Ranger]

3 g-strings? Why somany?

[Boer]

You cant turn them inside out like the conventional panties.
Let us not stray off the topic here, The various uses of g-strings is a different topic altogether - It would also be one of the most frequently replied topic on this forum, AND IT IS NOT AVIATION!