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Greg & Al, If you include ultralights, the # of successful deployments seems to be about 177: http://brsparachutes.com/PI_saves.mgi (though that website also says "lives saved", seems like that might be an overstatement) And the 1500# softpack model seems to weigh about 34 pounds. -John Greg Bullough wrote: > At 07:49 AM 11/29/2004, A J DeMarzo wrote: > >> How much weight does that add? Also, in REAL numbers, how many >> successful deployments have there been? > > > As of April, there were three. > http://www.cirrusdesign.com/downloads/pdf/nr_04_14_04_CAPSsaves5.pdf > >> I was at a manufacturing facility over the weekend where they're >> fitting a mod to a new Cirrus. We got to talking about the chute and >> the comment was made that the very large majority of deployments >> (almost all) in the Cirrus were unnecessary, and that the airplane >> become scrap upon deployment. Ah, but the alternative! > > > The first one was due to an aileron falling off following some > service work being done. One in April was the pilot's judgement call > after multiple systems > began failing in IMC following...some service work. In that one the > plane survived. I guess we > could second-guess the pilot's decision and from the safety of the > ground talk about what > 'I' (being a much better pilot than the decision-maker, of course) would > have done. > > But use of the term 'very large majority of deployments' in a sample > size of 'a few' seems > to me to be a bit over the top. > > Greg ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/
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