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 Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:07 pm Post subject: In-flight opening of front hinged canopy. BRS Comment |
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One importantthing about BRS or any other emergency chute (or any other man made artifact) is that they are not 100% reliable, too much Murphy chances to fail.
My point is that, they should be treated only as a "very last chance" safety possibility.
What I mean is that I have hear and read comments about pilots (most novice or non flyers yet) that think that they can get in "some" trouble ("Mild Combat acrobatic manuvers" to give them a name) or take chances with almost IFR weather, because they have a BRS.
Nothing more far from reality, Experience (if they have the chance to get some) will show them that a good pilot will avoid structural danger manuvers and bad weather as rattle snakes...
Saludos
Gary Gower.
Of the Soap box.
Do not archive.
--- On Mon, 1/12/09, PatrickW <pwhoyt(at)yahoo.com> wrote:
| Quote: | From: PatrickW <pwhoyt(at)yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: In-flight opening of front hinged canopy
To: zenith601-list(at)matronics.com
Date: Monday, January 12, 2009, 3:38 PM
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Sabrina wrote:
| Quote: | Sky Catcher BRS failure
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Any details on how it failed? Did it not deploy? Or get snagged on something?
Thanks,
- Pat
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Patrick
601XL/Corvair
N63PZ (reserved)
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cookwithgas
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| Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 7:56 pm Post subject: Re: In-flight opening of front hinged canopy. BRS Comment |
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Gary you are so right. I have a BRS installed in my 601XL and it terrifies me to think that I would actually pull it! I mean there is a solid fuel rocket right behind my head that is bigger than any hobby rocket I could imagine shooting up in the air! Then there is the fact that it has not been tested in the exact configuration the way I installed it. I do, however keep the safety pin pulled when I fly.
Yes, Gary - right on. The very LAST resort. One other scary thing- when I was sitting in my garage a long time ago just after installing the handle (no rocket) I was imagining I was in trouble and trying to see what it would be like to actually pull the handle, so I got myself all worked up and convinced that I was going down and I reached down and gave it a yank and almost pulled my wrist out of joint - I hadn't removed the pin! A simple mistake and my fictitious save didn't happen!
Fly safe and have fun!
Scott Laughlin
601XL/Corvair
120 Hours
www.cooknwithgas.com
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PatrickW
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:12 pm Post subject: Re: In-flight opening of front hinged canopy. BRS Comment |
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My original - and perhaps too brief - question was pertaining to the actual failure mode of the BRS.
We hear all about the BRS "saves". I have not heard much about any BRS failures, and it is those that we who are installing BRS's should examine.
I am in the process of installing a BRS in my XL, and am trying to do everything I can up front to stack the odds in my favor in the unlikely event that I or a passenger would ever have to pull that handle.
- Patrick
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Gig Giacona
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:07 pm Post subject: Re: In-flight opening of front hinged canopy. BRS Comment |
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| PatrickW wrote: | My original - and perhaps too brief - question was pertaining to the actual failure mode of the BRS.
We hear all about the BRS "saves". I have not heard much about any BRS failures, and it is those that we who are installing BRS's should examine.
I am in the process of installing a BRS in my XL, and am trying to do everything I can up front to stack the odds in my favor in the unlikely event that I or a passenger would ever have to pull that handle.
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Patrick if you are talking about the Skycatcher failure. First the plane was in a flat spin. Second there was some talk that the BRS was not properly mounted. Remember this was a prototype plane not a production version.
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