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>You cant dead stick a cessna in an urban environment, and current ballistic parachutes aren't that heavy. Except a ballistic parachute does absolutely nothing
by aphextron 10y ago
>You cant dead stick a cessna in an urban environment, and current ballistic parachutes aren't that heavy.
Except a ballistic parachute does absolutely nothing for you in the scenario where > 90% of accidents happen: take off and landing. Even the most advanced BRS systems on Cirrus planes require 1000 feet AGL. There's simply no getting around the basic physics of this problem.
- nickthemagicman 10y agoYeah but dead sticking is less effective during take off and landing as well.
- falcolas 10y agoI watched someone who wouldn't make the runway (pilot error, didn't switch the fuel tanks fully on approach) dead stick onto a perpendicular highway. With a light plane, you can do a lot with a dead stick. They have remarkably generous glide slopes (nearish to a mile horizontal travel for every 1,000 vertical feet). Not to mention being inherently stable whether under power or not.