BRS Question

Apparently they have to drill holes or somesuch. The sling's built in.

(Ross Oliver) writes:

Dave Katz wrote:
There's an additional wrinkle to this that I hadn't considered, but
was pointed out by a Cirrus-savvy insurance broker: the straps make
off-airport recovery of the aircraft much easier because you can hook
them to a crane or heavy-lift helicopter and lift the airplane out,
instead of having to chop it into pieces and drag it. Recovery costs
are not insignificant...


This can't be unique to the Cirrus. My aircraft's maintenance manual
includes a procedure for sling-lifting, and I would think that the same
technique could be applied to many other aircraft. I recall that the
Cherokee that landed piggyback on top of a 152 in Florida was lifted off
by crane and flew away home ;-)

Dave Katz wrote in message ...
"Michael 182" writes:

The number of scenarios in which this would be useful seems very
small. I imagine that it takes quite a bit more than 1500 feet to
recover from the "steep nose-down attitude" (as the NTSB would put
it.)

Don't get me wrong, I'm not about to try this in a Cirrus, but.... one
can recover from a hammerhead in a whole lot less than 1500 feet. If
you were to go to full throttle as soon as the nose fell through and
pull all the G's available as the speed picked up, it really shouldn't
take all that much room. (It *would* take some practice to get it
just right, however, and I'd be happy to stand on the ground watching
while one of you figgers it out!).

Dave Russell
8KCAB

(Dave Russell) writes:

Dave Katz wrote in message ...
"Michael 182" writes:

The number of scenarios in which this would be useful seems very
small. I imagine that it takes quite a bit more than 1500 feet to
recover from the "steep nose-down attitude" (as the NTSB would put
it.)

Don't get me wrong, I'm not about to try this in a Cirrus, but.... one
can recover from a hammerhead in a whole lot less than 1500 feet. If

Well, in a Decathlon anyhow. I'd bet you can't recover from a
hammerhead in a 747 in 1500 feet. A Cirrus is probably somewhere in
between.