I do recall a day where I was giving a brief to an advanced trainee at a regatta. We were going for a run around the set course for the day in the Bergfalke as a coaching flight. I went through the lot: how to wear the chute, how to get out of the aircraft in an emergency, how to deploy the chute, how to land and what to do after you are back on the ground.
Part way through the brief I had attracted a small crowd of onlookers. At the end of the brief one of the onlookers said "Wow, no one has ever told me that before!" He was wearing an expensive seat cushion. Anthony -----Original Message----- From: Aus-soaring [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of DMcD Sent: Wednesday, 25 October 2017 8:20 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Parachute >>Do you mind if i forward your comments to Mr Nigel Brennan who re packed and inspected the chute?? Forward away. There's nothing much new or controversial in the comments. The last paragraphs are quotes from others. This is not meant as a personal comment about the parachute you are selling, it's a general comment about our attitude to parachutes. While repacking some hang glider parachutes with a friend, a professor in fact, I was unable to throw his chute. His comment was 'it doesn't matter, I have absolutely no intention of throwing my chute.' Under those circumstances, it doesn't matter what parachute you carry or even, if like some hang glider pilots, you have a brick wrapped up in a towel in your parachute bag to pass an inspection. But if you want the parachute to open when you need it, then take every care. Paraglider people frequently throw a reserve parachute for practice. They also use them a lot. Hang glider people also practice throwing chutes, though not normally while flying. Both are told to rehearse their deployment routine on every flight, as soon as the glider is airborne and stable. What do we do in gliding? I think none of the above. I went to a parachute clinic some time ago. I thought it was to teach repacking. It began at 2 and finished after midnight and there were plenty of topics still to discuss. The repacking part took only 30 minutes or so. That was the easy part. If a rigger says that a chute is fine to use, fine but being a sceptic, I would take a broad range of opinions and if I wanted to use a canopy in anger, make sure it was not 25 years old! D _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
