Retting wrote on 8/11/2018 11:06 AM:
Do not buy a parachute. Do you wear one flying around in your Cessna?
Plus, we do not wear a chute because we fly cross country, we wear a chute to reduce the risk due to gaggle flying.
It is required use by competition rules. The chute then becomes an expensive convenient vetted cushion. Which is why glass pilots are always putting on their chute, even when the sky is filled with chuteless trainers and they are the only chuted one airborne.
You will know, later, when you need a chute.
Risk.....you have a much greater chance of dying driving using your phone. Driving fast. Eating while driving. Lightning. Gunshot, Crime.
The list goes on.
Yes, I know...Arcus, rudder, bailout....whatever.....he needs to strap on a 1-26 with a sports canopy first.

There are also collision risks in straight flight, not just gaggles. Glider
control failure is another risk: controls break, jam, or become ineffective when
mylar adhesive fails. Turbulence or mishandling can put the glider into an
unrecoverable situation. I spend far more time in my glider each year than
students do in their trainers, and I fly in more demanding conditions. My risk is
higher than theirs, so I think it's wise to wear a parachute while flying
cross-country.

Now that Cessna thing: I don't wear a parachute when I'm flying my Cessna, because
I don't have a Cessna; instead, I bought an airplane with it's own parachute.

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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me)
- "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