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Flying with Parachutes
On Friday, August 31, 2018 at 11:22:54 AM UTC-4, Dan Marotta wrote:
I believe the FAA rule is that there's no life limit on a parachute unless it is unairworthy (by inspection) or the manufacturer specifies a life limit at certification.Â* If your rigger won't inspect/pack your chute due to age, find another rigger.Â* My previous round parachute was 42 years old when I removed it from service and bought a square rig. On 8/30/2018 8:58 PM, JS wrote: On Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 7:32:15 PM UTC-7, wrote: There are riggers packing 20+ year old parachutes. Shipping is cheap compared to a new parachute. Of course if you can afford going square it is smart. Yet to see the 20-year rule on paper, other than something like "paraphernalia won't pack our own chutes beyond 20 years" which is their option but not a rule. A friend just donated two 20-year-old chutes to our pilot mentoring group. I saw them opened, and the containers, harnesses and chutes looked well taken care of. Picked them up from inspection and repack a couple of days later. This was a great donation, since the pilots learning XC do not have parachutes and the mentors fly XC with their own. Jim -- Dan, 5J Thanks, Dan. Philosophically I agree with you, as I have jumped many old but airworthy rigs over the years. All: I'm wondering if this is just a way for the parachute manufacturers to extract more money from us. I finally found the letter given to me by the skydiving center here in Miami. It is just an OPINION from National Parachute Industries, but it has enough weight to it that it has scared both my Miami rigger and my Pennsylvania rigger into refusing to repack it...so I need the name of a good rigger who will, if you know one. |
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Flying with Parachutes
At 00:22 11 August 2018, John Huthmaker wrote:
I'm just starting out with soaring. Simple question for you guys. How man= y of you fly with an emergency parachute? It looks like they cost around $= 2000 online. Pretty steep price; although the cost is insignificant if it = saves your life. Is this something I should be looking to purchase? Absolutely wear a parachute. Skydivers carry a reserve because they recognise that, occasionally, main parachutes fail. Our main parachute is the glider and we all know that, occasionally they also fail (mid-air/rigging failure/lightning strike etc). A few years ago, I came off AT and climbed to 3k and switched to the XC frequency. I immediately heard "Mayday, Mayday, two gliders collided and I see one parachute". Subsequently, I found out both pilots survived, the second pilot managed to land his glider. Enough said I think! |
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Flying with Parachutes
On Sun, 04 Nov 2018 16:58:07 +0000, Anthony McDermott wrote:
At 00:22 11 August 2018, John Huthmaker wrote: I'm just starting out with soaring. Simple question for you guys. How man= y of you fly with an emergency parachute? It looks like they cost around $= 2000 online. Pretty steep price; although the cost is insignificant if it = saves your life. Is this something I should be looking to purchase? Absolutely wear a parachute. Skydivers carry a reserve because they recognise that, occasionally, main parachutes fail. Our main parachute is the glider and we all know that, occasionally they also fail (mid-air/rigging failure/lightning strike etc). A few years ago, I came off AT and climbed to 3k and switched to the XC frequency. I immediately heard "Mayday, Mayday, two gliders collided and I see one parachute". Subsequently, I found out both pilots survived, the second pilot managed to land his glider. Enough said I think! Fully agree. In my club nobody flies without one, be they trial flighters, ab initios, instructors or just plain members. I wasn't yet flying in 1999 when the Dunstable ASK-21 got destroyed by a lightning strike at 2500 AGL, but both its pilots were wearing parachutes and both survived. When I started learning in 2000 everybody in my club was using parachutes for all flying[1] and fairly soon this was the norm for all UK clubs. [1] the exception was flying in our Slingsby T.21. I'm unsure of the rationale for this: it seems to be some combination of: extreme discomfort flying it in a 'chute and/or difficulty in getting out due the the cockpit being under the wing leading edge. -- Martin | martin at Gregorie | gregorie dot org |
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