So a single engine aircraft collides with a helicopter - all 3 in helo died after it crashed. But the plane also crashed into the top of some trees - it appears those aboard may all have survived - they deployed the aircraft's parachute which would explain how the plane is sitting on the tree canopy in this forest/wooded area.
I would of never guessed single engine planes even had a parachute that could be deployed.
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#4026591 - 10/24/1401:47 PMRe: Single Engine Planes with Parachutes ?
[Re: Haggart]
Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,204DrZebra
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it is pretty common these days.. cirrus sr-22 is probably still the most comon full size sports plane with that system in the us, but in ultralightighs, many countries have mandatory regulations that ALL planes in that category need to have one. Germany for instance, only exceptions in the mike-registered planes that may go without are gyroplanes.
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#4026781 - 10/24/1406:59 PMRe: Single Engine Planes with Parachutes ?
[Re: Haggart]
I seem to remember test footage of a Cessna 172 dropping vertically from a giant parachute...perhaps 15 years ago? But yea in more recent years they have become available for sale/use/retrofit. Kinda cool really!
I bet their expensive... but if cost is a factor you probably aren't playing with planes.
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#4026784 - 10/24/1407:04 PMRe: Single Engine Planes with Parachutes ?
[Re: Haggart]
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#4026791 - 10/24/1407:16 PMRe: Single Engine Planes with Parachutes ?
[Re: Haggart]
Joined: Oct 1999 Posts: 15,786Haggart
I Fought Diablo
"The company was formed in 1980 by Boris Popov after he survived a 400-foot (120 m) fall in a partially collapsed hang glider in 1975. As a result Popov invented a parachute system which would lower an entire light aircraft safely to the ground, assuring minimal, if any, injuries or casualties among its occupants"
Wow, that's crazy - there's nothing like a little motivation to make things happen. Good for him - imagine he saved a few lives.
Even if for some reason i couldn't afford it, if i was a pilot of a single engine small plane that could hold a chute I'd take a bank loan out and get one anyway. What is there to lose ? Maybe a lot more then cash.
BRS
cost $10,500.00 +/-
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#4026797 - 10/24/1407:28 PMRe: Single Engine Planes with Parachutes ?
[Re: Haggart]
Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 24,029oldgrognard Administrator
Not a one time cost. Big costs in required inspections, re packing, and periodic chute replacements. Not sure about the time requirement for replacement of the rocket motors.
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#4026805 - 10/24/1407:37 PMRe: Single Engine Planes with Parachutes ?
[Re: Haggart]
Joined: Oct 1999 Posts: 15,786Haggart
I Fought Diablo
Yea true enough OG i didn't think about the up keep
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#4026809 - 10/24/1407:46 PMRe: Single Engine Planes with Parachutes ?
[Re: Haggart]
Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 24,712Dart
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Well, not big costs - chutes repacked and rocket motor replaced every ten years. About 1500 bucks.
I looked into putting a BRS, but the weight isn't too great for where I'd have to put it (behind the seat) and the installation would be screwy (the forward risers for the chute would have to go on the cabanes, which means I'd have to run them down from the top wing along the rear cabanes, along the top of the fuselage on the sides of the cockpit, and then down into the turtle deck).
So that and the four grand for the system itself ruled it out.
Of course with a homebuilt I could put it in myself, which means talking to the company about how to best do that (and BRS is great when it comes to working with experimental aircraft builders) and that would save a bundle.
While a BRS will save a life, it pretty much trashes the aircraft. Now I'm in the camp that thinks that the plane is there to suffer for the good of the people inside it and so am willing to let it take the hit for me, most folks don't realize that. The rocket punches a hole in fabric or blows out a composite panel rather violently, and the risers tear their way to the anchor points, usually deforming the aircraft.
Then again, in the kind of situation where one would use a BRS the plane would be totaled if it wasn't there, so it's a wash.
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