Nearly all of Pipistrel aircraft have chutes fitted

bikensoar wrote:
On Sep 12, 11:54 pm, "Michael Huber" wrote:
Streifender developed a BRS system for gliders, his website (sorry, in
german) ishttp://www.streifly.de/Preise9-00.htm
That´s the system you can buy with some of the newer Schempp - Hirth and
Schleicher gliders.

Michael


I am suprised no one has mentioned the Sparrowhawk Glider. Everyone
of the 20
or so sparrowhawks except one has a BRS parachute. The decision was
to go
with a large parachute to REDUCE opening shock. The one is use in
rated for a
900 lb. aircraft. The Sparrowhawk fully loaded with the heaviest
possible pilot would
not even be 500 lbs. I suspect it will come down quite slowly.

Greg Cole fired off the ballistic parachute while it was attached to
the Sparrowhawk.
It was a ground test. He has it on video and it deployed perfectly
with no problems.
The cost is somewhere around $3000.00.

George Young, Sparrowhawk owner # 6