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What's "a little extra risk"? A 5% chance you'll die? 1%? 0.1%? Compared to what? Those are actually very large risks when the cost is your life. When the survi

What's "a little extra risk"? A 5% chance you'll die? 1%? 0.1%? Compared to what? Those are actually very large risks when the cost is your life. When the survival rate of using CAPS is an order of magnitude (or more) safer? Use the chute. Not to mention how bad a decision it would be to dead stick if there are passengers on board.

pc86 7y ago
> When the survival rate of using CAPS is an order of magnitude (or more) safer? [citation needed]
- whyaduck 7y ago
  13:1 better survivability with CAPS deployed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28539144 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28539144