(Jeff) wrote in message . com...
The BRS website lists the Russia AC-4 and the Mechta as aircraft they
have mounted the BRS system into. I have been unable to track down
the specific aircraft involved.



My reply was intended to contest the statement that *automatic* built
in chutes have been tested and shown to work. Do you believe these
BRS installations offer *automatic* deployment? If so, under what
circumstances do they automatically deploy?

I'd be interested in one that required manual operation and worked
with the glider in an inverted spin, or other severe unusual attitude
resulting from a structural failure. The one I wear on my back will
if I'm not incapacitated.

It would be technically possible to wire a firing circuit through the
wing tips and horizontal stab such that a discontinuity in the circuit
caused by loss of any of the major parts of the glider would cause the
chute to fire. Better be careful to disarm it though before derig.

Andy