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Not sure about flight envelop but it’s a start.
I thought that there was already a system that shot out sideways.
Curious. What failure with a helicopter could a brs save you from that an autorotation wouldn't?but it’s a start.
Blade departureCurious. What failure with a helicopter could a brs save you from that an autorotation wouldn't?
Curious. What failure with a helicopter could a brs save you from that an autorotation wouldn't?
Just my humble opinion, but any time I would need to use something like that (or, as I tell my wife, any time I would need to do an emergency landing on my plane) I don't care. It's not my airplane any more anyway. It's the insurance company's airplane, and it only has one job left to do before it gets recycled -- get me on the ground alive.of course, the natural instinct is to want an answer to the largely irrelevant question; how much damage is done to the helo in such an arrival? (small cloud of dust, did the main rotor strike the ground and if so does that mean a new mast?)
Just my humble opinion.
I can see engine out over hostile areas but the others doubtful especially the midair/incapacitate as who pops the chute afterwards? As i recall a brs has been looked at in years past particularly in the test aircraft side. But every instance I can remember elected to use explosive blade bolts and parachutes due to the blades always snagged the brs chute.An engine failure over dense forest or urban areas (night),
Any comparison to the cirrus system is not valid as an airplane is a stable platform. Whereas in my experience the only thing that keeps a helicopter upright and level is the pilot on the cyclic/collective/pedals. If the "sloppy link" between the seat and controls looses his bearing or a control output, a helicopter tends to roll or invert rather quickly. So which side or end would you mount the brs chute?, like all the Cirrus a/c that have dropped in that way
Any comparison to the cirrus system is not valid
I can see engine out over hostile areas but the others doubtful especially the midair/incapacitate as who pops the chute afterwards? As i recall a brs has been looked at in years past particularly in the test aircraft side. But every instance I can remember elected to use explosive blade bolts and parachutes due to the blades always snagged the brs chute.
Any comparison to the cirrus system is not valid as an airplane is a stable platform. Whereas in my experience the only thing that keeps a helicopter upright and level is the pilot on the cyclic/collective/pedals. If the "sloppy link" between the seat and controls looses his bearing or a control output, a helicopter tends to roll or invert rather quickly. So which side or end would you mount the brs chute?
I hate when that happens, but it's nearly always preceded by contact with something that's probably too close to the ground to make the parachute anything other than a death shroud.Blade departure
Question: if a heli pilot becomes incapacitated and a passenger pulls the red handle to use the chute... what happens?
Does the rotor downwash suck the chute into the blades? Or would the engineers design an engine cutoff or blade ejection into the chute pull?