At 10:20 PM +1000 05/07/2002, Brian Wade wrote: > >"First jettison the door or canopy if necessary, them unfasten your safety >belt(s). Note: NEVER unfasten your safety belt(s) first. You may be slammed >into the canopy or other portion of your aircraft and be injured or rendered >unconscious. You may find yourself upside down and jammed into some corner >you never thought possible. The safety belt(s) are designed to hold you in >place until you're ready to exit." > >Perhaps there are other points of view? >
Brian, For what its worth, I agree with the above sequence, for the reason that I was first given about using that sequence - because it helps avoid problems of the sort suggested above, and also because its consistent with the 'normal' exit sequence from the aircraft, i.e. open canopy and then release harness. The point here is that under duress, we're all most likely to fall back to what we've reinforced the most in training terms. Including opening the canopy and then releasing the harness. So I've always made sure not to release the harness before the canopy is open, precisely to ensure that this is (also) going to be the sequence that I use in the (hopefully) unlikely event of having to bail in flight. My $0.02 worth. $0.022 including GST. Cheers, Simon -- --- Simon Hackett, Technical Director, Internode Systems Pty Ltd 31 York St [PO Box 284, Rundle Mall], Adelaide, SA 5000 Australia Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.on.net Phone: +61-8-8223-2999 Fax: +61-8-8223-1777 -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.
