United Aviate academy, Cirrus CAPS deployment

[DropTank]

For me every time a chute is pulled it just reinforces my view that Cirrus are too much plane for the pilots that buy them (read $) because of lack of experience.

Glad it all turned out ok but I'll pretty much always look down my.nose at Cirrus pilots. If you can afford that plane you can afford a BE90.

Great, now you'll have an owner/operator with a Be90...

At lease the parachute drops the airplane on my head "gently", instead of a fireball and a crater.

 

[derg]

Some on-scene pics I snapped in the rolling terrain that drops into a wash, where the SR20 ended up.

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You should start a podcast on YouTube!

Give blacolirio or whatever his name is a run for his money.

"Here's what happened… well, quite honestly, we don't know yet. Thanks for tuning in"

 

[BobDDuck]

You should start a podcast on YouTube!

Give blacolirio or whatever his name is a run for his money.

"Here's what happened… well, quite honestly, we don't know yet. Thanks for tuning in"

It would be the Vine of podcasts.

7 seconds or less.

 

[derg]

Vine would be fantastic today.

Every video:

“HAAAAY guys what’s up, todays podcast is brought to you by Squarespace. Squarespace, bring your business online with the best tools available. Square space ….” TIMES UP!

 

[T/O w/FSII]

Look at the back injuries, from CAPS deployments in water…I’m not making this up or shooting from the hip like you are from one successful YT video.

CAPS is an incredible tool, but for some reason people like to always argue over it. Should I deploy here? Should I not deploy there?

Look at the numbers, at this point there is enough evidence/statistics to make an informed decision without emotion.

Lol. So what exactly are the statistics for getting a family of 4 out of a freshly upside down airplane in the water with only two gull wing doors? I’ll wait.

You going to figure out how to flip the seat forward too while your at is, upside down and sinking?

The airplane has been proven to float when it comes down under chute. Will my back hurt? Sure. Will my kid in the back die in a car seat because of it? Probably not.

I can’t believe the lawyer of all person is advocating flying a fixed gear nose wheel plane into the water when a safer way is an option and then you tell me to leave emotion out of it

 

[ppragman]

Lol. So what exactly are the statistics for getting a family of 4 out of a freshly upside down airplane in the water with only two gull wing doors? I’ll wait.

You going to figure out how to flip the seat forward too while your at is, upside down and sinking?

The airplane has been proven to float when it comes down under chute. Will my back hurt? Sure. Will my kid in the back die in a car seat because of it? Probably not.

I can’t believe the lawyer of all person is advocating flying a fixed gear nose wheel plane into the water when a safer way is an option and then you tell me to leave emotion out of it

I don't think James is a lawyer, unless I missed something...? @jhugz - dude do you secretly go to lawschool?

Also, when the hell are you gonna come through ANC and drink beer with me?

 

[WacoFan]

The FBO that I was indentured too in the 80's became a Socata dealer. We had a brand new Tobago (180hp, CS prop, fixed gear) on the line for rent ($80/hr) and at various points had a Trinidad (250hp, retractable gear). Really nice airplanes and the Trinidad would keep up with a Money 201/205. The Tobago was booked heavily. The thing that always gave me a bit of leery-ness was the gullwing doors. Don't like them on planes or cars. Not enough to keep me out of one, just not my ideal.

 

[Minuteman]

The older Soyuz capsules used retrorockets to land under parachutes in the steppes in Khazakstan. No puny landing gear or splashdown.

How did they know when to fire the rockets so that they didn’t go all Credible Sport? An altimeter! But a regular RF radio altimeter was heavy, expensive, and might not survive reentry, and the metal pole they first tried did not work for ground sensing in high wind.

So they instead put a radioisotope source (Cobalt or Cesium) on the bottom of the capsule and fired the rockets when the ground or foliage backscatter was detected. Recovery crews were trained to not walk around the bottom of the craft until it was secured.

I’m just saying. CAPS already uses a rocket.

 

[jhugz]

Lol. So what exactly are the statistics for getting a family of 4 out of a freshly upside down airplane in the water with only two gull wing doors? I’ll wait.

You going to figure out how to flip the seat forward too while your at is, upside down and sinking?

The airplane has been proven to float when it comes down under chute. Will my back hurt? Sure. Will my kid in the back die in a car seat because of it? Probably not.

I can’t believe the lawyer of all person is advocating flying a fixed gear nose wheel plane into the water when a safer way is an option and then you tell me to leave emotion out of it

"Sir, this is a Wendy's"

I don't think James is a lawyer, unless I missed something...? @jhugz - dude do you secretly go to lawschool?

Also, when the hell are you gonna come through ANC and drink beer with me?

I literally have no idea what this dude is talking about, why he wants to fight me over when I'd/he'd use CAPS, and why he thinks I went to law school. I'm wayyyyyy to lazy to work for a living.

Every once in a while I see an ANC on the bid packet but haven't gotten it yet. If I do, I'll hit you up for some pizza and beer.

 

[ppragman]

If I do, I'll hit you up for some pizza and beer.

I like both of those things!