{"id":2163,"date":"2019-05-25T09:33:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T16:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2019-05-25T15:13:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T22:13:52","slug":"always-have-a-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/25\/always-have-a-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Always have a backup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1437\" height=\"2000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_9997-1437x2000.jpg\" alt=\"Broken ID clip\" class=\"wp-image-2164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_9997-1437x2000.jpg 1437w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_9997-108x150.jpg 108w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_9997-431x600.jpg 431w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_9997-768x1069.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1437px) 100vw, 1437px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So this happened today. My airline ID, FAA pilot certificate, FAA medical certificate, FCC licence, vaccination records for accident site access and more \u2014 hanging by a string. Without that secondary tie, I could have lost them all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Easy aviation lesson: Always have a backup. A secondary HF frequency, enough fuel for an alternative airport, a spare battery, another option. A second string on your ID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a look at everything you do, and eliminate the single points of system&nbsp;failure. Are you listening Boeing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Big thanks to my crashpad roommate for 16 years, Captain Earl the Pearl, for setting me up with the secondary ID tie years ago.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this happened today. My airline ID, FAA pilot certificate, FAA medical certificate, FCC licence, vaccination records for accident site access and more \u2014 hanging by a string. Without that secondary tie, I could have lost them all. Easy aviation lesson: Always have a backup. A secondary HF frequency, enough fuel for an alternative airport, a spare battery, another option. A second string on your ID. Take a look at everything you do, and eliminate the single points of system&nbsp;failure. Are you listening Boeing? . (Big thanks to my crashpad roommate for 16 years, Captain Earl the Pearl, for setting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/25\/always-have-a-backup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading Always have a backup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[38,57],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-airline-ops","tag-safety"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}