Dave

Your post struct a note with me. My son is 8 years old and is desperate to
'go gliding with dad'.
I have considered buying a Caproni or Silene ( both side by side two
seaters) to ensure that I could get him out with me and I have investigated
static line triggered chutes ( throw him out knowing it would deploy ) but I
realised whilst reading your post that it has never crossed my mind to fly
without 'chutes. Thinking about it now I might consider it just for a flip
on a quite day with little other traffic but I simply couldn't do it on a
regular basis.

Personally I think the BRS is a good idea.

Ian



"Dave Houlton" wrote in message
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It does help - thanks, Jim! I'm flying club gliders now, but I expect
I'll eventually be an owner - and based on this discussion I'll quite
likely opt for an experimental. It just makes sense to me that if
you're trying to leave yourself an out for when things go Really Bad,
you want that out to be usable in as many phases of flight as possible -
including low on tow or in the pattern. BRS seems like the only game in
town in those situations.

I never put on a chute at all during training (including full-turn
spins, of course), but I started thinking more about it this fall when I
took my 8-yr-old son for his first glider ride. Along the lines of "I
should grab us some parachutes. But I'm not confident he'd be able to
get out and deploy, and I'm obviously not leaving without him...
Anyway, this is just a pattern tow and a sled ride - we'll never be high
enough to use them anyway." Perfectly reasoned but not very reassuring.

Dave Houlton