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That's the crash I just highlighted. Thanks for some additional info!
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Scenario-Based Training: Commercial Plane Crash
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Intewrestingly enough, this reminds me of a common argument we hear about ham radio operations- namely that with cell phones around, what do you need radios for?
The answers are obvious- from the independence from infrastructure to the power sources to the idea that the OPERATOR is important in handling message traffic. Our local Red Cross head on the last call out literally could NOT do her job until her cell phone battery died.
With this, it's the idea that just because there's a cell phone everything is taken care of. This could have been a very difficult situation if the battery had died too soon, for example.
The answers are obvious- from the independence from infrastructure to the power sources to the idea that the OPERATOR is important in handling message traffic. Our local Red Cross head on the last call out literally could NOT do her job until her cell phone battery died.
With this, it's the idea that just because there's a cell phone everything is taken care of. This could have been a very difficult situation if the battery had died too soon, for example.
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Christof,
When I did the trip to film with Ron Hood, one of my companions, Radio Ray, brought with him a home made ham radio that only transmitted morse code.
No cell signal was avialable in the most remote part of the idaho wilderess.
Ray strung a wire that he used for antenna up in the trees when we got to out pickup point to wait for the bush plane.
He sent out a message via morse code, a ham operator in AZ picked up the message, transmitted back that he called the pilot, and within hours we had a plane on the ground to pick us up.
Couldn't have been done via cell phone.
When I did the trip to film with Ron Hood, one of my companions, Radio Ray, brought with him a home made ham radio that only transmitted morse code.
No cell signal was avialable in the most remote part of the idaho wilderess.
Ray strung a wire that he used for antenna up in the trees when we got to out pickup point to wait for the bush plane.
He sent out a message via morse code, a ham operator in AZ picked up the message, transmitted back that he called the pilot, and within hours we had a plane on the ground to pick us up.
Couldn't have been done via cell phone.
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There was something really cool about being in the middle of nowhere and morse-coding for pickup. 
just watched the first 8 episodes of Lost...
interesting stuff there, and some things that i hadn't thought of.
things like even if you have things in checked luggage, the plane won't necessarily survive in one piece, and your luggage can be lost. so its important to keep some handy items on hand...in your carry on or in your pockets...tricky with modern restrictions but good reason to have something like that knife-able file.
interesting stuff there, and some things that i hadn't thought of.
things like even if you have things in checked luggage, the plane won't necessarily survive in one piece, and your luggage can be lost. so its important to keep some handy items on hand...in your carry on or in your pockets...tricky with modern restrictions but good reason to have something like that knife-able file.
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Sig...I am too lazy to look right now, but I snagged the TSA approved carry-on list and was asking christof and others to throw out ideas on how to improvise what is allowed for emergency use. If you can find it, it may address some of the 'lost' stuff...