Parachute deployment in New York

[tillmanr]

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Plane-Parachutes-to-Safe-Crash-Landing-on-Long-Island-371162171.html

[PommyRick]

Looks like a positive result, the parachute definitely gives you more options and less likelihood of hitting trees at 70 knots or worse stalling trying to get over them...

 

 

[Bennyboy320]

Outstanding result & no other option when flying over a built up area with no large open fields. Personally I have just ordered a Foxbat & am getting the BRS fitted to it, worth it's weight in gold, always nice to have options when things go pear shaped.

 

 

[Cosmick]

Good outcome

 

 

 

[Guest SrPilot]

Outstanding result & no other option when flying over a built up area with no large open fields. Personally I have just ordered a Foxbat & am getting the BRS fitted to it, worth it's weight in gold, always nice to have options when things go pear shaped.

Well, the Cirrus MIGHT have been able to get into somewhere in the area - that I don't know, but the Foxbat could have landed under control and without the chute where the Cirrus ended up bent and bruised under a chute. Once the chute is pulled, not a lot of options. Just ride 'er down. Like your Foxbat, Bb, my A22LS has a chute but I tend to think of it as an EMERGENCY chute. If I have a place to land, I'll do that. Not all let downs are emergencies. I've landed on streets like the one he ended up beside, but I wasn't flying a Cirrus. The approach speed on a Cirrus is probably more than the speeds I used to put down in built up areas on three different roads over the years. (But in my case, my landings were planned, not emergencies - and fire trucks were standing by in case I wasn't as good as I thought). They were also there when we departed, again demonstrating their concern about our ability to perform.

 

To me, the parachute is a last resort item because once I pull it, I'm basically just a passenger. The wind becomes the pilot and I don't know whether the wind knows what it's supposed to do or how to do it.

 

One of my mottos: Don't fool with - or depend on - Mother Nature.