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Pace
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No other major manufacturers have yet followed suit and offered the chute as standard fit in their machines.
Obviously there are aircraft which would suit such a fit while others would be more problematic or even impossible.
I presume low wing composites would be better candidates for a standard chute fitment than say the all metal high wing 172?
Do other manufacturers have plans to release their own version of chuted aircraft?
Pace
I was flying a Flightdesign CT the other day, which has the BRS as an option, and it was fitted. (It's also high wing - the chute fires sideways out of the rear fuselage just behind the wing trailing edge).
Cirrus have made it mandatory on their aeroplane, but actually quite a lot of smaller manufacturers have had it as an optional mod for quite a few years.
Of course, if the CAPS/BRS is optional, it doesn't give any alleviation from any other airworthiness requirements.
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