On Apr 3, 6:00*pm, Gregg Ballou wrote:
At 00:14 04 April 2009, Ian wrote:I would be very interested, for professional reasons, to hear
from
anyone who has used a ballistic recovery chute in a glider.

Ian

Only one I've heard of was the sparrowhawk that broke during
highspeed flight testing. * I believe the ballistic chute
attachments failed and the pilot used a regular parachute. *
Story was in Soaring sometime in the last couple of years.

August '08 article in Soaring magazine "Lord, if You're Up There" was
written about that incident. Also read
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Arch.../msg00364.html