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Old 12th Jan 2010, 08:26
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teeteringhead

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A worthwhile point on static lines incubus.

A few years ago one was visiting the US Navy at Pensacola, and got a trip or two in their basic trainers (T34-C I think?). Although these are used more in the Tucano rather than Tutor role, they have static line 'chutes.

Also interesting in this context is that before flight, we had to practice "egress procedure", which involved actually diving from the cockpit of a (real) training airframe on a rig in a hangar, about 10 feet into a safety net! Not my most dignified nor enjoyable "procedure", but I'm sure it would have helped in the unlikely event of having to dive for the trailing edge and miss the tailplane ........
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