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April 6th 09, 05:26 PM
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Any Ballistic Recovery Chute Users?
The Real Doctor wrote:
On 5 Apr, 22:58, Jim Logajan wrote: Ian wrote: I would be very interested, for professional reasons, to hear from anyone who has used a ballistic recovery chute in a glider. By "used" do you mean has one installed in their glider, or had to deploy one due to an inflight emergency? I'm assuming the latter. Yup, the latter. Someone who has actually pressed the Big Red Button. Actually I think you have to pull a handle with about 35 lbs of force. ;-) 
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