Crunch Alert (USA) - hugely serious but (apparently) non-fatal

My 1970 Std Cirrus had one...

On 2012/05/01 10:01 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Tue, 01 May 2012 10:27:26 -0700, GM wrote:

Don't know what the rules are in other European countries but I Germany,
wearing a chute while in training is mandatory. Since a static line
chute pulls the rip-chord for you, this is what we exclusively used in
our trainers. I have seen two guys bail out of a L13 (wing came off)
using static line chutes and both where fully deployed in a very short
time after exiting! Each European-designed glider I know of has a
hard-point to attach the static line to. Said hard point is marked in
red.

When did those hard points first appear? My glider, built in 1969,
doesn't appear to have one, so I'm curious.



--
Bruce Greeff
T59D #1771 & Std Cirrus #57