Gary did an excellent presentaion. Some of the key points to being found quickly are:
- on the flat prairies your chance of being found is about 40%
- in the bc mountains your chances are 4 to 5%
- if you are going to crash activate your ELT manually while you are in the air
- many ELT's do not activate or are destroyed in the crash
- hypothermia is the number one killer- have warm clothing along
- build a fire ASAP to keep warm and send smoke in the air
- tires and plastic from the plane make lots of smoke
- somehow make a big straight line, there are no straight lines in nature
MAKE YOUSELF AS VISIBLE AND DIFFERENT AS POSSIBLE