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Cirrus Chute Deployment Fails Over Texas, Pilot Still Makes Safe Landing
You know you're having a bad day when a flight goes so bad that you feel you must resort to using a parachute to see you safely through the flight... but the day is TRULY bad when that chute fails and leaves you to battle the emergency that you thought you had escaped from. (www.aero-news.net) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
This could be expensive for Cirrus owners that have already had their chutes repacked if the investigation reveals that the repacking process was faulty.
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I don't see why the Chinese comment is relevant. Chute repacking is probably done on-site at the service facility you take your plane to, rather than shipping the chute out and back.
Only because I have bought too many Chinese products and components of late that have failed, including cell phones. Hopefully, made in USA ONLY for me now.
That's still a xenophobic comment that has no place here. If you had stopped after "on the house," you'd have a lot of thumbs up rather than thumbs down.
Thumbs down on xenophobians, I am a Chinese simmer ...
Regarding to the incident itself, I think it is ok to fly an aircraft VFR as the meteorological condition is good. I am not familiar with light piston aircraft and I would like to ask whether the airspeed indicator is related to the vacuum system? If yes, then an unexperienced pilot may stall his plane at low altitude, which is dangerous.
Regarding to the incident itself, I think it is ok to fly an aircraft VFR as the meteorological condition is good. I am not familiar with light piston aircraft and I would like to ask whether the airspeed indicator is related to the vacuum system? If yes, then an unexperienced pilot may stall his plane at low altitude, which is dangerous.
Putting the comments aside, and I don't know about the vacumn system there, BUT, read the story. He was not VFR!! He was in IMC and on an Instrument Flight Plan and he made basically a blind dive to 800'AGL. It is OK to fly in VFR but actually at 800'AGL, he shouldn't have been there, unless on approach/departure. I still kinda believe ther is more to this story tha what is being told.