Cirrus BRS deployment

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Just reported on Aero News Net: Another Cirrus deployed it's chute when ALL
OF THE ELECTRONICS went out leaving the pilot stranded above an overcast...
The article cites recent maintenance of some sort... The issue here is
having all your eggs in one basket... I betcha the factory will say that it
is impossible for everything to fail at once - apparently they never met
Bubba the Mechanic... and just wait till you have your FADEC go poop on
take off...

Once all the magic smoke leaks out of those electronic chip thingies, life
is a bitch... Do not bet your life with a GA airplane that has a total
electronic panel... You still need a few steam gauges, and a spare
nav/com/ils on the back up battery, and at least one vacuum gyro...

denny

"Dennis O'Connor" wrote:
Once all the magic smoke leaks out of those electronic chip
thingies, life is a bitch... Do not bet your life with a GA
airplane that has a total electronic panel... You still need a
few steam gauges, and a spare nav/com/ils on the back up
battery, and at least one vacuum gyro...

Don't Cirruses have backups to the PFD?
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM
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Sounds like maybe this guy popped the chute because of turbulence?!

I really hope there's more to it than that.

mike regish

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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yes they do, in the bolster just below the PFD

John

"mike regish" wrote:
Sounds like maybe this guy popped the chute because
of turbulence?!

I really hope there's more to it than that.

Hard to say from the article what the problem really was. But, yeah, it
does kind of sound like he might have panicked.
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Dan
C172RG at BFM
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"Dennis O'Connor" wrote in message
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Just reported on Aero News Net:

ANN is the National Enquirer of aviation news. The pilot of this particular
Cirrus radioed for help, so his electrical system did not fail.

Might come as a bit of a shock to you, but Cirrus has backup instruments. So
do the new Cessnas.

This from another report:

"Pilot Albert Kolk used his radio to call for help.
He reported that the fuel was not burning equally from the fuel tanks,

causing the aircraft to spin."

Hard to know what to think except that the chute did work and did save some
lives.

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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Dennis,

You should go work for the NTSB, since you're clairvoyant an accident
causes.

Once all the magic smoke leaks out of those electronic chip thingies, life
is a bitch...


Once something fails, the regulation-mandated back-up kicks in. It doesn't
matter whether that's vacuum, a second battery or whatever else. There's
nothing inherently "better" about steam gauges - except they satisfy
reluctance in the face of progress. We'd still be living on trees if
everybody had that mindset.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)