Rotorwork Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 From ASN https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/386671 The Legend 600 suffered damage from an unknown cause possibly a bird strike which fractured the vertical stabiliser resulting in loss of control. The pilot deployed the plane’s ballistic patachute to bring the plane down safely. The occupants were not injured but the plane suffered extensive damage contacting a tree on the landing. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freizeitpilot Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Would that be the first (and successful) deployment of a ballistic parachute from a recreational aircraft in Australia ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reynard Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 The aircraft rego expires in 10 days. At least there is a silver lining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrendAn Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 On 18/04/2024 at 7:02 PM, Freizeitpilot said: Would that be the first (and successful) deployment of a ballistic parachute from a recreational aircraft in Australia ? lots of raa aircraft with brs parachutes, surely someone must have used one over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freizeitpilot Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 I haven’t seen the stats for Australia, but RAAus aircraft with installed parachutes are still pretty rare….but slowly increasing. Of course there is a significant cost and weight penalty but from reading various threads on this forum you would think that BRS was the work of the devil. Hence, I’m pretty sure this incident was the first deployment in Australia, at least for an 600kg LSA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueadventures Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 24 minutes ago, Freizeitpilot said: I haven’t seen the stats for Australia, but RAAus aircraft with installed parachutes are still pretty rare….but slowly increasing. Of course there is a significant cost and weight penalty but from reading various threads on this forum you would think that BRS was the work of the devil. Hence, I’m pretty sure this incident was the first deployment in Australia, at least for an 600kg LSA. Also an expensive item to have serviced, freight included. Have a friend that has a chute due in November; he is going through the exercise of its service. The agent is compiling an instruction to allow L2's to dis arm the rocket motor to make safe, so chute can be sent away for repack and rocket due later on. Sounding very involved for him. I see some are left un-serviced and placarded not for use. As the aircraft with them get older more will be due for service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrendAn Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 33 minutes ago, Freizeitpilot said: I haven’t seen the stats for Australia, but RAAus aircraft with installed parachutes are still pretty rare….but slowly increasing. Of course there is a significant cost and weight penalty but from reading various threads on this forum you would think that BRS was the work of the devil. Hence, I’m pretty sure this incident was the first deployment in Australia, at least for an 600kg LSA. not rare at all. they were available way back in auf days. lots of xairs have them. we might be on different pages. i am talking about rag and tube ultralights, the true recreational aircraft. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freizeitpilot Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 Yes- you’re right. Ballistic parachutes for aircraft started at the ‘light’ end but were made famous by Cirrus. i was thinking more about sport aircraft. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBoy1960 Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 (edited) There have been a few used in trikes, including one in a storm down in the Maitland regeon that I remember from almost 20 year's ago. Cant remember if it was HGFA or RA-Aus registered but he took off just ahead of a gust front which caught him out and made his flying uncontrollable. He deployed the chute and landed safely. Edited April 23 by FlyBoy1960 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freizeitpilot Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 and now also for e-VTOLs. https://newatlas.com/aircraft/aeroht-ballistic-evtol-parachute/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabiru7252 Posted Saturday at 06:05 AM Share Posted Saturday at 06:05 AM Flaunting my ignorance here - why would fracturing the vertical stabilizer cause a loss of control? Might make things tricky in a cross wind landing but loss of control in flight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted Sunday at 02:04 AM Share Posted Sunday at 02:04 AM Depends on the keel surface and how the air flows around it. It's a weathercocking effect and I reckon most planes would be directionally uncontrollable. with adverse aileron effect. Nev 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danny_galaga Posted 17 hours ago Share Posted 17 hours ago On 22/04/2024 at 9:12 PM, BrendAn said: not rare at all. they were available way back in auf days. lots of xairs have them. we might be on different pages. i am talking about rag and tube ultralights, the true recreational aircraft. Only just today I noticed a Drifter with one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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