Scrub forward to 1:45 or so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnHuIET4P2s

HOLY SHIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess the extra 4000 bucks and 20 some lbs make those BRS chutes well worth their weight in gold.

Parachutes are like handguns and fire extinguishers.

You never need one until you need one very badly.

My wife still won't go up in a flying machine with a 2 stroke anymore...
And the landing was really soft, under that big parachute. So, what's her problem?????
What do they speak in Argentina? Would love to translate the show narrator. The croud sure shut up whatever he said. My Spanglish didn't pick up the equivalent to holy shit... but I bet it was close.

flightlogic wrote:My wife still won't go up in a flying machine with a 2 stroke anymore...
And the landing was really soft, under that big parachute. So, what's her problem?????
What do they speak in Argentina? Would love to translate the show narrator. The croud sure shut up whatever he said. My Spanglish didn't pick up the equivalent to holy shit... but I bet it was close.

It happens to the best of our reciprocating sucking machines. There are a lot fewer parts in a piston or rotary valve ported 2-stroke than there are a sloppy old Continental with kachinkity-chink valves (don't tell mine I said that...) It sounds like you know all about what can happen, though. Mind elaborating? I've never talked to anyone who's pulled the handle in earnest.

Pretty sure he said "shut off la musica."

1SeventyZ wrote:

flightlogic wrote:My wife still won't go up in a flying machine with a 2 stroke anymore...
And the landing was really soft, under that big parachute. So, what's her problem?????
What do they speak in Argentina? Would love to translate the show narrator. The croud sure shut up whatever he said. My Spanglish didn't pick up the equivalent to holy shit... but I bet it was close.

It happens to the best of our reciprocating sucking machines. There are a lot fewer parts in a piston or rotary valve ported 2-stroke than there are a sloppy old Continental with kachinkity-chink valves (don't tell mine I said that...) It sounds like you know all about what can happen, though. Mind elaborating? I've never talked to anyone who pull the handle in earnest.

Pretty sure he said "shut off la musica."

He said turn the music down so the crowd could hear the pilot say "Holy S#@T!"

Did he survive the post crash fire?

Anyone knows anything about those chutes...better, anyone has one? how much, which one is best, how they are installed, how do they work, etc? this lad was some lucky it didnt get tangled in the prop or wing while rolling Cheers, BCT

Of course the long ride down under the chute is better than the short ride down without, but that must have felt like forever coming down stairing at the ground.

Emergency parachute landing checklist:

- Shut off engine - check
- turn everything else off - check
- tighten shoulder harness - check
- uh... tighten shoulder harness again - check

That doesn't even account for the first item in the checklist:
- $#%t your pants - check

Certainly a great outcome and a terrific testimonial for the systems value.

Brett

Although the Rans S-9 was designed for aerobatics, this one had a 912S in it (originally had a Rotax 503!), and definitely gets pushed to the limits. I know several S-7 guys who have them in their planes, but none have used them thankfully. If I was going to fly hard aerobatics in a hopped up S9, I would have one as well.

BTW, Mark Pringle, western states Rans Dealer will be at Johnson Creek in June with his S-7S and some buddies. He's building two of these hopped up S-9s right now. They are supposed to be an absolute kick in the pants to throw around the sky. Just limit your negative G maneuvers to the design limits....

Ballistic chutes work IF:

A mid-air collision doesn't disable the chute or sever it from the part of the plane you happen to be in.

The plane is not on fire.

You are not exceeding the chute's rated speed at time of deployment. (A Cirrus did the lawn dart thing after tearing away it's wings and chute near N. Lake Tahoe. A Sparrowhawk test pilot survived only because he was wearing a regular chute as well, when he was thrown forward through the canopy during ballistic chute deployment at above the glider's VNE.)

Not to say ballistic chutes aren't a great idea, they are. Unfortunately, the FAA makes it all but impossible to add them to most certified aircraft.