On Aug 22, 9:56*am, John Smith wrote:
Morgans wrote:
Some airplanes, like Cirrius, have a harness that supports the aircraft, and
the aircraft comes down in a more or less level attitude. *Are you saying
that your aircraft have the harness attatched to the aircraft so that it
always comes down nose first, or just that it will sometimes get tangled and
come down nose first?

It would seem like it would be a big advantage to come down level, for the
aircraft and the passengers.

The chute must be stored somewhere, and its lines have to be attached to
the plane in a way which doesn't endanger the occupants when the cute
gets deployed. By far the easiest way to do this is to store it in the
aft fuselage and to attach the lines behind the cockpit. Which happens
to reslt in a nose down attitude when the plane hangs on the chute.

I'm sure there are other ways, but they come at a price, moneywise and
weightwise, both not desirable in a RANS-9. A Cirrus may be a different
story.

The aftermarket instillation of a Cirrus like rescue parachute in
Cessnas most often has the canister in the luggage compartment, and
it appears the harness attaching it to the firewall and aft on the
airplane are under a fiberglass fairing that gives way when the
parachute is deployed. The airplanes are intended to come down more or
less flat.

In a significant number of cases (the statistics are cited in
references elsewhere in this thread) the airplane was not totaled
after being brought down under the parachute.