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Old 2nd Nov 2011, 10:48
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Fuji Abound
 
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I gather you might get full deployment in as little as 400 feet.

Even with a partial deployment I guess the drag would have a significant impact on forward velocity.

It does raise the sole searching question in the event of an EFATO at what height you might pull the chute, discussed on many occasions on COPA. I suspect every pilot must reach their own conclusions taken together with the circumstances of the pull.

The Cirrus does have some useful features to help reduce injury caused by forward velocity including in belt air bags and a crumple zone.

I was looking very recently at the remains of the cockpit of a Cirrus that suffered an EFATO; the passenger compartment survived extraordinarily well in the circumstances disregarding for a moment the fire damage.
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