What about an engine failure, prop failure at altitude? Or those who fly into IMC and are not instrument rated and become disoriented? Or how about bird strikes or disabled pilot?
Bill
In a message dated 1/31/2011 5:43:52 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, Helen_Woods@verizon.net writes:
I will concede the remote possibility that if a wing fell off or a
midair collision occurred bellow 1000' that the pilot may have presence
of mind to quickly enough recognize his situation and deploy the chute
before landing in the water but I still say it is impractical. Most
seaplane pilots are flying below 1000' over water. The chances of a mid
air at that altitude are remote and the chances of a factory built plane
suddenly having the wings fall off (Zodiac excepted) are even more
remote. Why would one total the airframe's structural integrity and
risk landing in an unusual attitude from a chute deployment both of
which increase the chances of sinking, rather than just landing straight
ahead in the water?
Helen
On 1/31/2011 8:34 PM, apollonorthamerica wrote:
> Below 1000 feet BRS is useless??
> Where, how, who do you come up with that. Generally speaking a BRS may open in as little as 300 feet. In fact I know of a sea trike going down due to a bad wing sail repair after a previous under water encounter and on this second one they opened their BRS at around 500 feet and survived though hurt. According to them if I remember the BRS opened just enough to make the water impact softer.
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> SeaReys have a sliding canopy and Aventuras are open or have pop-open windows. Interestingly enough, just about every SeaRey pilot I know has sunk their plane at least once with a gear down water landing and swum away. By contrast, I looked at a Gannet a few years back at OSH. The salesman gear downed it and drowned a few months after I spoke with him. I'm not flying it unless I have a way to escape.
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> As for the BRS, most seaplane flying is done below 1000' where a BRS isn't going to be of any use and there's plenty of runway all about.
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