Still so shocked of the news that Greg Scheff, LS-6700, a great guy and top notch surveyor from Wrangell, went down in an aircraft on Friday flying to Angoon and perished. His practice in SE Alaska is some of the hardest conditions in the state. Super professional surveyor and involved with the profession. World will miss you Greg, godspeed ....................
Darn! Sorry to learn of this tragedy.
Very sorry to hear this. We were talking last week at the ASPS conference about how many older surveyors we were loosing. It really is sad.
Yes. This is very bad news indeed. I just talked with him earlier last week about a project he was working for DOT. Really makes you think about how we get around in these parts and inherent risks we take just to get to work.
dig, post: 366728, member: 2485 wrote: Yes. This is very bad news indeed. I just talked with him earlier last week about a project he was working for DOT. Really makes you think about how we get around in these parts and inherent risks we take just to get to work.
I have a distant buddy, a high-timer retired pilot, that lived/ worked all over AK and now lives in Juneau. We just chatted on the email about the crash. His guess was the weather closed in on them. Apparently there are few times a year that weather conditions can turn in seconds.
Sad new all the way around.
Yep Paden, I fit in that group too. Been flying 42 years myself, nearly 9000 hours pilot in command. Travel by air and boat is necessary in most of Alaska, particularly in SE. Weather is weather. Plane was on amphibious floats so it had the most options of any to set down if weather gets bad which is an occurrence that happens everywhere.
I am not going to Monday morning quarterback what happened, its just that the final outcome is dang tragic.
Press Release from the Alaska Society of Professional Land Surveyors:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d81w0ka5lb8xjdd/ASPLS News Release.pdf?dl=0
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God Bless...
Very sad news. I received the release from the ASPLS today. I was unaware that they had been the ones that perished in the crash until today. The surveying community in Alaska is fairly tight knit and even more so in SE. The weather can be pretty fickle down there this time of year (or any time for that matter). Temperatures get close to the dew point and clouds can form in seconds. Very mountainous and rugged country around Admiralty Island. My heart goes out to the family and friends of all those that perished.
