Help to Spread a Word for Safety in Emergency
We have just been told by our pilot friends in United States about this new "ICE" (In-Case of-Emergency) campaign.
We think this to be a great, yet simple idea and we do agree it is very important if some accident or unexpected illness may happen.
Especially here in Thailand! It's true that almost every single body has got his cell phone with him all the times and it's also true that an accidents are happening and almost each of us came across to some, either on a road, beach, or just at some event's field ...
Certainly it's very important to be able to find quickly a right contact to the victims relative or friends to inform them, or to be able to obtain some additional vital info about the patient/victim, (especially in case of patient's unconsciousness), such as the name, special health conditions: blood group, allergies, diabetes, epilepsy, recent medications, indispositions, etc., ...)
These contacts to the close relatives or friends are all stored in our mobile phones, but for somebody else but ourselves is almost impossible to find the correct name/number/contact fast enough. There may be a hundreds of them ...
So, this is why is it so important to have them stored under some generally and publicly well known and recognized names, exactly as this ICE campaign suggests!
... the contact named ICE is for your mother, the contact named ICE2 is for your girlfriend, etc., ...
and then is, of course, important for the hospital crews, police, fire brigades, rescue teams, etc., to know what to look for and what do they mean ...
Our paramotor pilots already addopted this idea, and all our members, Thai and Foreign, added their relatives or friends names in their mobile phones, under these ICE - in case of emergency, codes.
Please help us all to make this known and followed by every one who do you know and care about!
It can safe ours and our friend's lives!
you can read more about it on our website, or by clicking on the link: http://www.bmgparamotor.com/ICEcompaign.html
Tell us what you think ... will you follow?!
Thank you and Blue Skies!
Heroic Marine died in aircraft crash - inquest
3:06pm Tuesday 16th December 2008
By Alex Cameron »
A ROYAL Marine from Taunton with a distinguished service history died when his extreme sports aircraft went into a spin and fell 1,000 feet to the ground in Cyprus, an inquest heard today.
Sgt Paul ‘Scruff’ McGough, 41, died on June 1, 2008, when he lost control of his paramotor aircraft after a 20-minute flight, West Somerset Coroner Michael Rose was told.
Mr McGough, who was an experienced parachutist, had completed a ‘sound’ four-day training course on the holiday island with British-based SkySchool Flight Centre Ltd, owned by Alex Ledger, of Sturminster Newton, Dorset.
The inquest heard how Mr McGough had completed two 360-degree turns at the end of his flight and was attempting a third when disaster struck.
He may have pulled too aggressively on hand toggles used to steer and was unable to recover stability during a crucial five seconds in which he began to spiral and lose altitude.
Instructions to release the toggles and cut the engine power relayed to him from the ground from Mr Ledger via a one-way radio went unheeded and he went into a face down spiral dive.
Recovering from such a dive would have needed precision flying skills and more altitude, the inquest heard. He hit the ground at about 60mph and died of multiple injuries.
Investigations by authorities in Cyprus said the flying school had breached the country’s regulations by not registering itself or the aircraft, although Mr Rose said this was not a key factor in the incident and Mr Ledger claimed he had previously approached police in Cyprus to check he was not in breach of the law.
During his service, Mr McGough showed extraordinary heroism in several key operations in countries including Afghanistan and Sierra Leone. He was mentioned in dispatches and his obituary in the Telegraph described him as one of the most respected men to serve with the SBS.
Mr Rose recorded a narrative verdict, saying: “The deceased, having completed a paramotor training course in Cyprus was undertaking a 360-degree turn when the paramotor he was turning started to bank steeply and went into a spiral dive resulting in his death. In all probability the fatality would not have occurred if the risks of such turns had been more fully understood at the time of the incident and appropriate training given.”
According to the British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association, a paramotor is the simplest of all powered aircraft and consists of small 2-stroke petrol engine driving a propeller, worn like a backpack, under a paraglider wing. It provides thrust to take off, climb and maintain level flight.
To read Paul McGough's obituary, click on the Related Link, right.
By Alex Cameron »
A ROYAL Marine from Taunton with a distinguished service history died when his extreme sports aircraft went into a spin and fell 1,000 feet to the ground in Cyprus, an inquest heard today.
Sgt Paul ‘Scruff’ McGough, 41, died on June 1, 2008, when he lost control of his paramotor aircraft after a 20-minute flight, West Somerset Coroner Michael Rose was told.
Mr McGough, who was an experienced parachutist, had completed a ‘sound’ four-day training course on the holiday island with British-based SkySchool Flight Centre Ltd, owned by Alex Ledger, of Sturminster Newton, Dorset.
The inquest heard how Mr McGough had completed two 360-degree turns at the end of his flight and was attempting a third when disaster struck.
He may have pulled too aggressively on hand toggles used to steer and was unable to recover stability during a crucial five seconds in which he began to spiral and lose altitude.
Instructions to release the toggles and cut the engine power relayed to him from the ground from Mr Ledger via a one-way radio went unheeded and he went into a face down spiral dive.
Recovering from such a dive would have needed precision flying skills and more altitude, the inquest heard. He hit the ground at about 60mph and died of multiple injuries.
Investigations by authorities in Cyprus said the flying school had breached the country’s regulations by not registering itself or the aircraft, although Mr Rose said this was not a key factor in the incident and Mr Ledger claimed he had previously approached police in Cyprus to check he was not in breach of the law.
During his service, Mr McGough showed extraordinary heroism in several key operations in countries including Afghanistan and Sierra Leone. He was mentioned in dispatches and his obituary in the Telegraph described him as one of the most respected men to serve with the SBS.
Mr Rose recorded a narrative verdict, saying: “The deceased, having completed a paramotor training course in Cyprus was undertaking a 360-degree turn when the paramotor he was turning started to bank steeply and went into a spiral dive resulting in his death. In all probability the fatality would not have occurred if the risks of such turns had been more fully understood at the time of the incident and appropriate training given.”
According to the British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association, a paramotor is the simplest of all powered aircraft and consists of small 2-stroke petrol engine driving a propeller, worn like a backpack, under a paraglider wing. It provides thrust to take off, climb and maintain level flight.
To read Paul McGough's obituary, click on the Related Link, right.
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