Looks like he has it all together with electrics.
I'd disagree, John. If he had it all together with electrics, he wouldn't have fried his battery and barely saved his airplane limping back to Inyokern Muni from China Lake NWTC. Should have had an emergency landing location planned, IMO. I don't know if he would have been allowed to land at the NWTC or not, but I'd think there'd be a dry lake around there that would serve.
My brother is retired from the China Lake NWTC, don't know exactly what his title was, but a lead engineer on the Sidewinder missle program. Like I wrote above, he hikes, flies his glider(s) and does electrical work for the A&E mechanic at Inyokern Muni. I asked him if he knew of this guy, and got this reply:
"Yeah, there is often a parade of morons wanting to set records out there. Usually they want volunteers to do a bunch of support work for them, always without compensation and always there are a few media-morons there too. Everybody I know uses the basic VFR rule: "See and avoid" or even better, "Don't see and avoid also". The local media suck it all up like a Giant Slurpee. One previous moron was that Fawsett guy. He won't be coming back as you've heard."
Steve
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