Given the difficulty of getting in and out of a 152 on the ground it's probably impossible at our circuit height of 800ft to survive a bailout.
A larger aircraft at 1000ft and reasonable speed, say 100kts, would be quite survivable. The key is the airspeed. You'd get a far faster deployment at 100kts than from stall speed. Unfortunatley, most emergency aircrew parachutes I've seen are pitifully old or badly maintained. Modern square reserve parachutes of the type used by skydivers are very fast to open and very, very reliable if the mandatory inspection and repack cycle is adhered to. I use one of these too: http://www.cypres2.com just in case ;-) Regards, Matt. On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 12:39, David Megginson wrote: > I know that's a joke, but I wonder what the odds of successfuly > exiting a falling 152 would be -- assume that you're already well > below circuit altitude by the time your brain has processed the > failure. You'd probably be better to stick with the plane unless the > structural failure were total (i.e. a lost wing rather than just a > bent one). > > > All the best, > > > David _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
