The AOPA seminar a few years back on how to survive a crash was great.
They asked what the fire extinguisher was for and everyone gave the
obvious question.
The speaker said "no, it's useless for almost all fires you're likely to
encounter in flight. Use it to spray on the plexiglass to freeze it and
then use it to hammer your way out through the window".
Rowland & Wilma Carson wrote:
> <rowil@clara.net>
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>> Regarding the RV that flipped on to its back at Fishburn recently,
>> the pilot commented that he would have preferred to have had a small
>> 2lb axe to have been able to get out. It was the rescuers that
>> enabled exit through the broken canopy. He considered that the small
>> "lifesaver" hammers were a complete waste of time.
>
> Duncan - sorry to be so late responding to this - your mail was
> timestamped as 1988 which meant it was hidden behind a few thousand
> others in my mailbox; looks like you need to fix the date & time
> (and-or the keep-alive battery) on your machine.
>
> The lifesaver hammers are intended to break safety glass as found in
> cars; they are not designed to be effective on the acrylic
> transparencies typically found in light aeroplanes. The best way to
> break an acrylic window is to try drilling a hole in it and fitting a
> rivet!
>
> regards
>
> Rowland
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