Blue Water Ditching: Training Professional Crewmembers For the Unthinkable Disaster
Captain Dave Montgomery has thirty years of professional flying experience, with over 8,000 flight hours transitioning seventy countries. In 1981, he joined the United States Air Force after spending his early life as a firefighter and police officer. In 1991, he served as one of six pilots for the operational testing and evaluation of the Lake Seawolf Aircraft. It was during these tests that he gained his valuable takeoff and landing experience in a myriad of offshore conditions. He is among an extremely small percentage of aviators who intimately know what a pilot can expect when landing offshore, and after four years of research, he has compiled many techniques, procedures, facts, figures, and recommendations into a single guide to prepare a pilot for a possible ditching. Montgomery retired from the Air Force with twenty-four years of service and now pilots for NetJets, the world’s largest corporate flight department. He currently lives near Seattle with his wife and two children.