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First-hand video of a BRS deployment.
("Roger" wrote)
I don't know what it is about that site, but my firewalls and blockers will not accept it. At least one of them has it on the blocked list. Try YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTemKnL8X30 Mid-air Montblack |
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First-hand video of a BRS deployment.
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:49:29 -0600, "Montblack"
wrote: ("Roger" wrote) I don't know what it is about that site, but my firewalls and blockers will not accept it. At least one of them has it on the blocked list. Try YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTemKnL8X30 Strange, U-Tube works, but it also blocks the CNN site video. I also saw the other U-tube clip but that one did not appear to show the tow rope impact as did this one. In the first video it appeared he just pulled the nose up and then blew the chute. In the second one you can see the tow rope. Now if he'd just get smart enough to fly the airplane and have some one else do the photography, or will he be like the guy we had at the airport that ran out of gas three times in a couple of months before trashing a 172. Then he had another one for maybe 6 months before he stalled the engine on a taxiway, got out and propped it (battery was dead) but forgot to retard the throttle. It left without him and ended up in the trees on the SW corner of the airfield. About 6 months later he piled up and Emeraud putting himself and another guy in the hospital. They did both survive and the Emeraud is flying. (different pilot):-)). Mid-air Montblack Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com |
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First-hand video of a BRS deployment.
That's a guy who better not take up skydiving.
mike "Roger" wrote in message ... Now if he'd just get smart enough to fly the airplane and have some one else do the photography, or will he be like the guy we had at the airport that ran out of gas three times in a couple of months before trashing a 172. Then he had another one for maybe 6 months before he stalled the engine on a taxiway, got out and propped it (battery was dead) but forgot to retard the throttle. It left without him and ended up in the trees on the SW corner of the airfield. About 6 months later he piled up and Emeraud putting himself and another guy in the hospital. They did both survive and the Emeraud is flying. (different pilot):-)). Mid-air Montblack Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com |
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First-hand video of a BRS deployment.
It's my turn to contribute to the noise of this thread. I'm pretty
sure I saw an airport wiIth a paved runway right under the airplane where this accident happened, and that glimpse is supported the observation that the glider was just released. Does it strike anyone as odd that the pilot chose to deploy the parachute rather than glide to a landing? It was not clear to be that the airplane was out of control after striking the tow line, but maybe I'm missing something. A second point: I adopted a strategy shown to me by an older more experienced pilot. Enroute he almost always flew (the a/c was an Aero Commander 680, a high wing twin) at his assigned altitude + about 75 feet, figuring it decreased the odds of a midair a little. I took on the habit of averaging about 75 feet under my chosen or assigned altitude, given the Mooney is a low wing airplane and vis is better up than down. And notice I did say 'average'. My handflying enroute tolerance is quite a lot better than +/- 100 feet, but with lots of time in the airplane, careful trimming, and paying attention it's not hard to hold altitude to a couple of needle widths. I think most pilots with a reasonable amount of time do at least as well as that. by the On Feb 9, 5:21 pm, Jim Logajan wrote: I got the following link to this video via the Matronics Zenith e-mail list. What's interesting and fascinating about it is that it contains video from a cockpit camera that shows the impending mid-air collision and the cockpit view when the aircraft hits the ground under the chute: http://www.turbopilot.com/copa/image3/brs.wmv I guess cockpit cameras are becoming common enough that this sort of video would be inevitable. (Not sure why the pilot didn't see the towing aircraft - unless it was because the other plane was coming up from below to his right.) |
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