Fuji and 007heli
I do not think that either of you have properly thought out the implications of what you are suggesting using the chute for engine failure.
Let me expand on that. A conventional chute is used to evacuate an unflyable aircraft to save your bacon from
An aircraft which is going down regardless.
Let me give a comparable situation which shows what you are suggesting !
I own say a Grumman tiger and because I am an incapable pilot lacking skills I strap on a conventional parachute.
I have an engine failure at 2000 feet.
I instantly pull back the canopy and abandon a perfectly flyable aircraft.
Floating down under my chute I watch as the aircraft goes on its merry way descending into the back garden of a house and killing a baby in a pram!
You are suggesting abandoning a flyable aircraft, pulling the chute which makes it unflyable and keeping your fingers crossed that you don't come down onto someone killing them?
Any good pilot with an engine failure will be constantly assessing the situation! They will quickly have plan A B and C in mind as they descend and will abandon A if it's looking pear shaped !
The bad pilot will sit there like a frozen goose with only plan A in mind and become a passenger to the inevitable crash.
I could not live with the results of my actions abandoning a flyable aircraft to a chute if my actions resulted in someone on the ground being killed!
Ok over rough unpopulated terrain maybe? But think of what you are considering ?
Pace
Last edited by Pace; 23rd June 2012 at 14:59.