I've Lost 4 Friends in 60 Days - Aviation Safety Discussion | Mike Patey

[spectras only]

Great discussion by Mike Patey, he talks about three strikes to make a decision to go out flying, also about icing. . Go to 1:00 in the video, when they talking about the killing zone, seasoned pilots [ commercial ] going back to general aviation.

 

[Racer56]

Great discussion by Mike Patey, he talks about three strikes to make a decision to go out flying, also about icing. . Go to 1:00 in the video, when they talking about the killing zone, seasoned pilots [ commercial ] going back to general aviation.

Great video, watched when Mike posted it to his channel.

 

[rrrr]

I watched it a couple of days ago, and you can see Mike is really shaken by the loss of his close friends. His description of an unforecast icing encounter in a 421 and the other comments about decision making were really compelling.

 

[spectras only]

Density altitude is really what pilots should pay attention always. Here in British Columbia with high mountains and valleys where there's no room to return around, especially with fog rolling in has claimed lives. I've flown with friends with planes and when flying from Vancouver to Kelowna, we took the path over the Coke highway that gives chance to land in case of engine failure.
We had a terrible accident in the past over the ocean, when an ER twin engine plane with a patient went down in fog, pilots miscalculated altitude over sea level and crashed into the sea. Took a commercial twin engine plane with a pilot buddy, ten on board to Port Hardy to buy a boat for him, from Vancouver on a sunny blue sky day. Past Campbell river, we entered in dense fog, approaching Port Hardy, the pilots said, we may have divert to Bella Coola. Buddy and me looked at ea other and said f...k, hope these pilots are very good with IFR. This happened about 30 yrs ago. We circled about 20 min above PH, couldn't see shit out the window, all of sudden went to a dive and bam we landed safely, phew. In the marina in Port Hardy, we haven't seen a single boat without radar there. Best halibut fishing up there and fogs rolling in unexpectedly at any time. Lost a friend's husband that area he was helicopter logging.

Wouldn't want to take extra weight, not even magazines/books when flown in my friend's Cherokee 140, haha

 

[Dan Lorenze]

Great video