Anti Collision Warning

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.

jeff

(Andy Durbin) wrote in message om...
Dave Martin wrote in message
An in built parachute with automatic deployment would
surely help. Tests have been carried out and shown
to work.


Manually deployed built-in parachutes have been tested and shown to
work in controlled conditions. I am not aware that anyone has
developed or demonstrated an automatic deployment parachute for
gliders.

Schleicher offered a ballistic chute option in the marketing brochures
for the ASW-28. As far as I know it was never an available option. I
heard the testing showed problems. Anyone know details.


Andy

(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