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Pilot, daughter describe their surreal descent into ocean in Cirrus plane
At 12:15 p.m. Saturday, after taking off from a small airport in Miami, McGlaughlin reported to air traffic control over the Bahamas that the dead engine was forcing him to deploy the parachute system on the Cirrus a few miles from Andros Island. He had been watching a dipping oil pressure gauge for a while until the engine seized and the propeller stopped. (www.duluthnewstribune.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Hey Randy Brown and Front Range Airport: You two have the worst kind of bias, that not supported by fact. You toss your vitrial
Landing on water is the best place to go with a parachute when your engine quits. Landing on hard ground or in trees is much more dangerous.
Hey Randy Brown and Front Range Airport: You two are the worst of "our kind". Because it isn't what you have you hate it and then make staements that without basis. Your vitriol tends to make me think you were bullied in school or have "other" issues that make you a badass when you are at your keyboard. Like many in the COPA community I am a long time pilot. I have owned and flown many other aircraft. I am also a certificated parachute rigger
and skydiver. When I searched for an airplane and eventually bought my Cirrus I was initially "put off" by the parachute as it took away from the useful load and I had been trained as all of us have to make off airport landings if required. The more I pondered that issue the more I realized that there are many places where "off airport" means "no place to land" and issues not just for me and my pacs but people on the ground. It makes sense, to me. It may not to you but that doesn't make it wrong. It will recover from a spin in the requisite amount of time and had you done your research you'd know that. I guess it's easier to spew sewage.Sorry to any put off by the additional post(s) my computer isn't playing nice. Maybe I'll just pull the chute!
I'd rather hit the water in a controlled stall than at 1700 fpm straight down. I'm sure there are some instances where the 'chute results in a safer descent and crash landing, but this doesn't strike me as one of the cases.
Energy increases at a square of the velocity. 16 times more energy to dissipate at 60kts than 17kts.
would you still do that in a fixed tricycle gear plane like the Cirrus? you are probably immediately going on your nose if not on your back, which is now upside down in water with a doors that open vertically.......looks like he did a great job doing exactly what he did