+coast2coast2coast Posted April 9, 2004 Share Posted April 9, 2004 (edited) About two o’clock this morning I found the Ultimate geocache . I’m part of an Air Force Search and Rescue unit on the West Coast of British Columbia. We got a call last night of a crashed air plane and off we went. We heard that a small aircraft with 4 persons on board had crashed and relayed their GPS position to an over flying commercial air plane before the radio died. We arrived at the location and dropped a flare, which made the mountainside look as if it were daytime. We did this for over an hour with no luck dropping flare after flare. One of our Squadron helos came and helped in the search. This continued for close to an other hour when one of our crew members spotted a faint light in the trees through his night vision goggles. We flew over the strobe light and low and behold there was the air plane in perfect condition in the tall trees (the aircraft had its own parachute!) We called the Helo over and they plucked 4 survivors in perfect condition . The air plane was close to 8 miles away from the lat and long the pilot sent the commercial air plane (He should invest in a Garmin) Now that is the Ultimate First To Find!!!! Edit ....Typo Edited April 9, 2004 by coast2coast2coast Quote Link to comment
+TFTC Posted April 9, 2004 Share Posted April 9, 2004 (the aircraft had its own parachute!) Wow, that sounds like the kind of plane to fly in! Quote Link to comment
+HikerMike Posted April 9, 2004 Share Posted April 9, 2004 (the aircraft had its own parachute!) Wow, that sounds like the kind of plane to fly in! http://brsparachutes.com/PI_models.mgi Quote Link to comment
+Gizmo & Brazin Posted April 9, 2004 Share Posted April 9, 2004 Very Cool! Sounds like you have a very rewarding job when you can be a part of saving people's lives! WTG!!! Quote Link to comment
+Klondike Mike Posted April 10, 2004 Share Posted April 10, 2004 (He should invest in a Garmin) I'm sure thats what he had!! Quote Link to comment
+PandyBat Posted April 11, 2004 Share Posted April 11, 2004 Wow! That's way too cool! WTG coast2coast2coast! Quote Link to comment
+SkinGuy Posted April 11, 2004 Share Posted April 11, 2004 Congratulations on the rescue! ...and a big "thanks" for your service! Quote Link to comment
+GEO*Trailblazer 1 Posted April 11, 2004 Share Posted April 11, 2004 Way to Go !!!!! Do yo use a Garmin ? I do. Quote Link to comment
+Team Flying Dachshund Posted April 11, 2004 Share Posted April 11, 2004 i thought the U.S goverment uses Magellans? dont they? Quote Link to comment
+Capitalpete Posted April 11, 2004 Share Posted April 11, 2004 Nice to know people like you are out there, and come to find people like us who get into these situations. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication Coast2Coast! You people probably do not hear that enough. I saw the story this morning on the news, it was sure nice to hear about a happy ending for all involved, and it must be a great relief for people such as yourself that are prepared for, and usually find a worst case scenario. I have seen these systems first hand, they are expensive but completely worth every penny. I have flown in planes that have them, and thankfully never had to use them. They have been in use on experimental aircraft for a while, and more recently used in certified airplanes. Perhaps now that they have had two successful emergency deployments on certified aircraft, they will be more common. I hope you encounter them more often, and have many more good stories to tell us. Quote Link to comment
GeoWorms Posted April 11, 2004 Share Posted April 11, 2004 Yeah--great job! ...but I bet you didn't trade up ! Quote Link to comment
+crzycrzy Posted April 11, 2004 Share Posted April 11, 2004 Yeah--great job! ...but I bet you didn't trade up ! I love this guy ! Quote Link to comment
Wanderingson Posted April 11, 2004 Share Posted April 11, 2004 "That others May Live" Bravo my friend. Another save. Quote Link to comment
+coast2coast2coast Posted April 11, 2004 Author Share Posted April 11, 2004 (edited) Yeah--great job! ...but I bet you didn't trade up ! HeHeHe the Helo guys did! They had to leave a whole bunch of stuff there so they could pick up the 4 survivors...( they went back later and picked it up) I was joking with my crew... I said " If this was a Geocache I would have found it long ago" Coast³ Edited April 11, 2004 by coast2coast2coast Quote Link to comment
+GEO*Trailblazer 1 Posted April 11, 2004 Share Posted April 11, 2004 I thought I seen the green RINO's on the Lapel's of our Soldiers in Iraq, To my knowledge they are still the only waterproof, able to send the coordinates to another(position reporting) units available at this time dunno heard about the plugger but I don't think it has position reporting ??? The GOVernment????? Of,for and by...this one buy a RINO.IKNOW? Back on topic Thanks again for your valiant efforts and safe recon. Quote Link to comment
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