Survival Checklist
THIS SURVIVAL MATERIAL IS BEST USED WHEN COPIED AND LAMINATED IN A BOOKLET IN MUCH SMALLER TYPE SIZE
The Six C's of Survival
---Confess that you have a problem
---Message Format
---Mayday, Mayday, Mayday
---Identification
---Position or last known position and route
---Magnetic Heading
---Indicated airspeed
---Available fuel
---Kind of problem
---People aboard
---Intentions
---Help desired
---Continue repeating
---Climb to increase radio range.
---Communicate on 121.5
---Conserve resources
---Comply with instructions/suggestions
---Consult survival references
S---Happens to You, too
---Flight plan?
---Who knows what your plans are?
---Position reports and alternate airports.
---Survival items?
---Aircraft condition
---Choose where to have your accident
---Check ELT and antenna
---Clothing etc.
---Cell Phone/extra batteries
---Signal devices
---Tools
---Fire starters
---Get shelter
---Water over food
---Take inventory and survey area
---What can you expect of search and rescue
---Spending your first day
---Do you have your positive mental attitude with you?
---Stay with aircraft
---Use indicators to show where you go, if you go
---Conserve body water and energy (rest)
Use Common Sense
---File complete flight plan and tell a friend your plans or alternate plans
---Stick to planned/expected route and notify of changes
---Give position reports and close/open plans at each stop
---Check weather and accept no-fly option
---Have emergency/survival equipment and plan
---Make your presence known by buzzing homes and signals
---Use contrast to mark your location
---Stay with aircraft if you have done all of above.
---Your goal is to stay alive
KIT
Hatchet/file
Lighter
Space blankets
Ponchos/solar water
Socks, gloves and head cover
Purifier
The Enemy
Your mind…imagination, fears, attitudes…will to live
Temperature –within 12-degree range…get into shelter
Injury…mobility, self help…conserve resources
Disease—fought by body
Food is lowest priority
Two quarts of water required even at rest
Rest to conserve resources
Emergency Response
---What you do first affects everything afterwards
---Perception by eye and ear of problem
Reaction
---Tension, no sweat, adrenaline, heart rate up,
Survival Necessities
Positive attitude… most variable results
Oxygen…3 to 6 minutes
Shelter not there…3 to 4 hours
Rest …30 hours
Water…3 days
Food…3 weeks+
Fear Has Symptoms
Mental
---Irritability, hostility, talkativeness changing to speechless, laughing into crying, confusion into forgetfulness, flight, panic into stupor
Physical
---Fast pulse, breathless, dilation, tension, fatigue
---Sweat, dry mouth, butterflies, faintness, nausea, vomiting
Response and Options
---Methodical, precise and sequential use of checklist, or
---Refusal to accept situation as bad or even happening
---Panic with frozen limbs and mind
Survival is Pre-Determined by What You Are
---How and what you think will control what happens
---Come to the accident with a goal and the goal will keep you going.
---The best goal will give meaning and purpose to staying alive
---The goal of a survivor must be beyond rescue
---The survivor has self-programmed himself beyond childhood concerns
Your Fears
---Fear is both normal and acceptable
---Control yourself and the situation through positive action
---Proficiency in what you do will give confidence
---Know your options and the odds when selecting them.
---Keep informed of changes and effect they have on outcome
---Never stop trying to better your situation
---Be realistic and take care of others with you first
---Set for your companions things to do that have immediate results.
---Create comfort zones to fit the individual including yourself
---Expect emotional drain after use of high energy; rest, rest, rest
---Expect shock and treat with warmth, fluids and feet elevated.
The Fears of Others
---Mutual support helps everyone
---Set rules to be followed for common good
---Thinking as a team is the way to go
---Give encouragement without sympathy
---we are in this together and will get out together
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