All ..
I know the parachutes discussion has done the rounds in the past on this forum, but this is the first time that I have actually come across this website:
http://brsparachutes.com/default.aspx
I always used to think that parachutes mostly get added to aeroplanes as part of a factory fitted process, but it appears that this is not the case with all models as the above link suggests.
I have a couple of questions for those of you who might have some experience with these:
- If you have one fitted, does it give you a much bigger sense of feeling safe?
- Is this easily available in the UK or more the US?
- Can it be fitted to say a Piper Warrior?
- And this might be a harder question, but if you have to think of all or some of the GA Fatal Incidents that you have read about or know of, what percentage of would possibly not have been fatal if this parachute system was fitted (a rough guess)? I guess the question should really read will this system prevent most fatalities.
I had a look at a couple of videos on youtube .. quite interesting.
check out this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXQKaxp6Rlk
Anyway, as some of you know I'm not a qualified ppl yet so don't take the p1$$ if some of the questions are silly.
S