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.
Abid
Helen Wrote:
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.
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.
Helen
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