Originally Posted by
ex-fast-jets
No-one has yet mentioned the joy of fitting the drag chute.............
If a chute replacement had been done during a pilot turnaround, the ultimate challenge on landing back home was to deploy the chute to see what happened. Again my memory tells me that quite often the whole chute in its container would land on the runway in a lump with no hint of deploying properly to do the job for which it was designed. Not a chute problem, but a "pilot turnaround" glitch.
Great fun though!!
Hence the little hole in the port aft stabilator edge so you could put the pip pin in it when fitting the chute, if the pip pin was still there the can hadn't been secured. The expediant way to get a rogue noddy cap to fit on, was to beat the **** out of it to get it roughly back into shape prior to fitting.