How to search on the Internet for Steve Fossett's Citabria taildragger

0. Install Google Earth freeware on your PC:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/Home-Education/Google-Earth.shtml

1. Download the map update recently taken of the search area this week
http://s3.amazonaws.com/fossett/geoeye-color.kml

2. Start Google Earth and Load the new GeoEye maps into Google Earth.

3. When you zoom in to about 150 miles above the California Nevada border,
you can see the newly added GeoEye color maps will be a greener (summer)
color than the older maps. This is the search area. It's huge.

4. You can zoom down to the 12,000 foot level (or whatever) and search the
area for the blue Citabria taildragger. You can find a picture of the actual
plane here
http://www.stevefossett.com

5. In addition, you can get a search area assigned to you on Amazon's
Mechanical Turk by going here
http://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=9TSZK4G35XEZJZG21T60&kw=Flash

7. Then press the "Accept Hit" button and log in.

8. Then press on the link "To help in the search for Steve Fossett, please
click here" and then press on the link "Work on HITs", whatever a "hit" is.

9. What this does is gives you a zoomed-in view of YOUR SEARCH AREA (they
give a search area to each person). If you see his plane, then you tell
them on that web page.

10. If you want, they also give you coordinates such as
"38.117852,-119.279851" which you can then go back and paste into the
Google Earth tool to look at the same location and zoom around using the
Google Earth software.

Hope you find something interesting!

miket6065 wrote:

According to www.stevefossett.com:

The aircraft's last confirmed position on Monday (3 September) at
approximately 10:30 A.M. local time showed Steve west of Powell Canyon
(south of Walker Lake and southwest of Hawthorne), proceeding east
towards the canyon.

The geoeye-color.kml doesn't cover any of this area...

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:55:25 -0400, Some Other Guy wrote:


I have no explanation.
All the information I've read is from Amazon Turk and from the STeve
Fossett web site.

ANyone else have any answer to this enigma?

BTW, does anyone know the GPS coordinates of the AIRFIELD where Steve
Fossett took off from. If he is to be found, we'd need to START at that
airfield and then do successive radius loops around from there.

Where did he take off from? Yes, I know it's a ranch owned by Hilton, but,
do we have coordinates or a google-able address?

Here you are Mike.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/10/fossett_search_continues/

On 2007-09-12 17:27, miket6065 wrote:


Fly M Ranch (7TA7) is listed in FAA 5010 and here:
http://www.airfieldsdatabase.com/Texas%20R6%20R.htm

LAT 31-50-23 (31.8398944)
LONG 94-57-40 (94.9613278)