Puchaz spin - now wearing 'chutes

There are parachutes for static lines used in gliders (although less and
less) and manual ones.

To this whole discussion :
- it's almost impossible to retrofit a BRS to a glider
- that means that BRS will only be installed in gliders with a "crashworthy"
cockpit
- the only thing I'm really afraid of in soaring are midairs. Having a
midair in the Alps in the vivinity of a ridge, a BRS is basically the only
option to survive.

--
Bert Willing

ASW20 "TW"


"Jim Vincent" a écrit dans le message de
...
just out of interest, how many of those of us who wear
chutes, use a deployment line attached to that odd
looking ring usually found by your left shoulder?

Be very careful about this. The parachutes we use in gliders are not
designed
for static line deployment; they're designed for the pull of a hand in a
particular direction. If you rig a static line directly to the ripcord,
you
risk a very good chance of just ripping off the handle.

On a parachute, the container is kept closed by little cones and rings.
The
ring goes through the cone, and in the case of a ripcord, there is a pin
going
through a hole in the cone to keep the cone in place. For static line, a
piece
of line is wrapped around the static line and then through the hole in the
cone. When you jump out, the pull of the static line breaks the thin
piece of
line, releasing the pilot chute.

Jim Vincent
CFIG
N483SZ

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:19:58 +0100, "Bert Willing"
wrote:

There are parachutes for static lines used in gliders (although less and
less) and manual ones.

To this whole discussion :
- it's almost impossible to retrofit a BRS to a glider
- that means that BRS will only be installed in gliders with a "crashworthy"
cockpit
- the only thing I'm really afraid of in soaring are midairs. Having a
midair in the Alps in the vivinity of a ridge, a BRS is basically the only
option to survive.

Right on the spot.

I have to admit that I'd prefer the Soteira system (a rocket that
pulls the pilot out of the glider). There's a cause why ejection seats
are used and not parachutes to save a complete B-52...


Bye
Andreas