I thought ya'll'd be interested in this. Alaska law requires you to have a number of items in a survival kit when flying a private plane. The rules vary somewhat for multiple passengers and commercial, but the list is the minimum.
Food for each occupant sufficient to sustain life for two weeks
One axe or hatchet
One first aid kit
One pistol, revolver, rifle or shotgun, and ammunition for same
one small gill net and an assortment of tackle such as hooks, flies, lines, sinkers, etc.
one knife
two small boxes of matches
one mosquito headnet for each occupant
two small signaling devices such as colored smoke bombs, railroad fuses, or very pistol shells, in sealed metal containers
In Addition, in the winter you must have
one pair of snowshoes
one sleeping bag
one wool blanket for each occupant over four
Canada has many more items which are more specifically defined.
Looking at this list, I would want to add more firemaking tools, a pot and a tarp. This, combined with an entire plane, would make a nice supply of things in a crash setting. What other things would ya'll consider adding? And what would you put together to meet the qualifications of "Food... for two weeks"?
I will be putting a kit similar to this together in the next week or so, I'll need it before I do my cross country solo. I will also have appropriate winter clothing stowed, as well as the normal knives around my person. Any place more than 5 or so miles west of here will not be accessible by ground in another month or so (The ice on the river melts, no bridges), and there is a highway that goes north east and south-ish, but no other roads. I'd likely get to ride out in a helicopter courtesy of the nice ground pounders at Ft. Wainwright if I decided to land at a place off of normal airstrips.
Stryver
Food for each occupant sufficient to sustain life for two weeks
One axe or hatchet
One first aid kit
One pistol, revolver, rifle or shotgun, and ammunition for same
one small gill net and an assortment of tackle such as hooks, flies, lines, sinkers, etc.
one knife
two small boxes of matches
one mosquito headnet for each occupant
two small signaling devices such as colored smoke bombs, railroad fuses, or very pistol shells, in sealed metal containers
In Addition, in the winter you must have
one pair of snowshoes
one sleeping bag
one wool blanket for each occupant over four
Canada has many more items which are more specifically defined.
Looking at this list, I would want to add more firemaking tools, a pot and a tarp. This, combined with an entire plane, would make a nice supply of things in a crash setting. What other things would ya'll consider adding? And what would you put together to meet the qualifications of "Food... for two weeks"?
I will be putting a kit similar to this together in the next week or so, I'll need it before I do my cross country solo. I will also have appropriate winter clothing stowed, as well as the normal knives around my person. Any place more than 5 or so miles west of here will not be accessible by ground in another month or so (The ice on the river melts, no bridges), and there is a highway that goes north east and south-ish, but no other roads. I'd likely get to ride out in a helicopter courtesy of the nice ground pounders at Ft. Wainwright if I decided to land at a place off of normal airstrips.
Stryver
