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This makes interesting reading. I am currently in the process of producing an emergency parachute designed specifically for use in GA aircraft. It weighs less than 5lbs, opens in under one second and less than 50ft from pulling the handle, and features a state of the art fully steerable canopy. I won't go into great detail as it is still in the design phase but I am hoping to have the prototype ready for testing in the next 12 months. Aerobatic pilots will love it as they won't even know they are wearing it.
I have no idea if there will be any great demand for it, but I am fed up with the ridiculous oversized bulky equipment that is currently sold to pilots as being the 'best available' when most of it is based on 1970s designs. The plan is to build the equipment to suit the requirements of light aircraft pilots, so size, weight and ease of use are the main objectives...and of course 100% reliability!
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