Flying with Parachutes

The airbag comment is interesting.
Several good quality studies have looked at the impact of airbags on deaths in motor vehicle accidents. The interesting statistics have to do with the use of seatbelts. Turns out that seatbelts are responsible for the reduction in deaths, not airbags. When not wearing seatbelts the airbags made no reduction in deaths.

wrote on 8/15/2018 1:11 PM:
The airbag comment is interesting. Several good quality studies have looked at
the impact of airbags on deaths in motor vehicle accidents. The interesting
statistics have to do with the use of seatbelts. Turns out that seatbelts are
responsible for the reduction in deaths, not airbags. When not wearing
seatbelts the airbags made no reduction in deaths.

Currently, airbags are designed to be used with seat belts, and it's well known
that airbags are ineffective for the unbelted occupant. There are plenty of
studies showing that when both are used, fatalities and injuries are reduced over
seat belt only use.


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- "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation"
https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1
- "Transponders in Sailplanes - Dec 2014a" also ADS-B, PCAS, Flarm

http://soaringsafety.org/prevention/...anes-2014A.pdf

Airbags may be good for the first hit, but they're single use......so when you hit something, and THEN another thing, you're toast since the airbag has already been deployed.

As I stated before, I have no issues with chutes.
Never needed one, glad I had it in competitions.
I will NOT frown on someone that wants one.
Some ships make it a royal PITA to wear.