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This could be the start of a whole new thread. Am I alone in being the only
one who is terrified of Ballistic Parachutes? My daily aircraft is borrowed
long term, it has one fitted but I never fly it with the safety pin out, the
thought of it going off on its own accord doesnt bear contemplating. And
having the thing there on the aircraft, staring you in the face when youre
doing your walk around; ugh!

How many mid air structural failures are there (not pilot induced) when it
could be used? Pretty few Id guess, Other than a survivable collision,
not very likely, when would you use one?

Now sits back and awaits for the inevitable incomng!

John

LS wrote in message news:94216n$9r$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article ,
> "JWL" wrote:
>
> There is an allowance for certain pieces of safety equipment, like a
> ballistic parachute. That is, you can still legally install a ballistic
> chute on your machine even if that places it over the overall weight
> limit (i.e., you can subtract 25lbs from the actual weight with a chute
> installed, something like that).
>
> I believe the rationale for the weight and fuel limits have to do with
> environmental concerns - i.e. a gasoline spill of 5 gallons or less, or
> a crash of a flying machine of 254lbs or less, arent considered
> impactful enough on the environment to involve the government. A hazard
> that might involve more gas or weight than that, though, has to be
> regulated.
>
> Something like that....
>
> LS
> AC fun racer.
>
> > Thanks guys,
> >
> > LSs answer is what I was looking for. Id read LSs original to
> mean
> > that installing an altimeter would violate 103 (not that I knew what
> that
> > meant) and didnt consider the additional weight of the instrument and
> > deck. thought it peculiar that a safety critical instrument would
> violate
> > something!
> >
> > TVM
> >
> > John
> >
> > Buck Entriken wrote in message
> >
> news:CB4781E2D5BE01A2.0F1C48BDB78F3CD7.41788D3F0EDAE962@lp.airnews.net..
> .
> > > perhaps you were questioning "analogue", or "instrument deck"?
> > >
> > > That would be a dial type instrument "analogue", as opposed to
> > > "digital" and instrument deck would be somewhere to mount it.
> > >
> > > Buck
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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