if you already know about ICE and have implemented it, skip this post.
Considering that engaging in our sport carries some risk with it, we might want to think about implementing ICE. ICE is a simple thing of entering in your in-case-of-emergency number under the acronym ICE. When a patient is not able to speak, emergency rooms across the country have traditionally been looking in wallets to find relatives or friends to contact. This has often proved to be unsuccessful.
Now they have started looking in the patient's cellphone for contacts. They will look under ICE first to locate the patient's emergency contact. This is obviously much more effective and possibly more desirable, than having them contact wife/husband/mom/dad/home. Besides you may not want your mom to know that you're half dead in the hospital. At least not right away.
You will probably hear from your physician about this sooner or later. Why don't you just stick ICE in your cellphone *now* and then hope nobody will ever have to use it.
-- ellis
p.s. read about it in NYtimes 24, october, health section by Eric Nagourney
p.p.s. considering that most of us have to battle DC traffic on a regular basis, you may want to implement ICE even if you're a super-safe pilot
You may even want to tell your non-pilot friends about it.
