Originally Posted by
sunday driver
Without getting too specific, the aircraft they use is a lovely, very capable and reasonably new, high wing, tandem monoplane and I suppose you could argue that by the time any ageing pilots have extricated themselves it would all be over. ..... SD
Something like a Super Decathlon, I guess. I'm aware of two incidents where chutes were successfully used, unfortunately only one person in each case and both had 2 pob.
I was involved with a flying school that considered chutes but it wasn't practical for two reasons. Allowing time for the student to eject the door then get out followed by the instructor resulted in a quite high minimum altitude for our operations. Secondly, the chutes ate too much into the useful load.
As someone said, no use it being an expensive cushion - must have the discipline to plan to use it.
Flying low level aeros solo for a competition or display in a Pitts etc I'd wear a chute.