I'm glad he survived without injury to fly another day. Whether he gets insured again in another Cirrus... ? (/quote]
Well, the report said "engine problem".. how should that change his insurance?
I guess I'd like to know more about the surrounding terrain. Was the swamp the only option?I'm glad he survived without injury to fly another day. Whether he gets insured again in another Cirrus... ?
Well, the report said "engine problem".. how should that change his insurance?
so you forcibly land in a swamp. How do you avoid the gators?
so you forcibly land in a swamp. How do you avoid the gators?
I guess I'd like to know more about the surrounding terrain. Was the swamp the only option?
You think you have any say in the matter once you pop the chute?
That plane is in remarkably good condition considering the events. Does chute deployment itself render the aircraft unrepairable?
Would be cool if you could steer it with the rudder pedals. Wrong kind of chute for that...
Some get repaired but most don't. One Cirrus that chuted down was sufficiently intact to be flown back to a repair station from where it has ended up. If I recall correctly, that was the one that was mistakenly fueled with Jet A.
I've been under the impression that the chute risers are inlayed in the spine of the fuselage so if it deploys, that's it for the airframe.
Ilan Reich, who parachuted down into the Hudson claims that he steered away from some big fuel farm on the ground by using power and rudder while under canopy.
The one from Addison that lost the aileron post-maintenance was taken back by Cirrus and restored to fly again.
Yep - No reason you can't use those to pick your landing spot, unless the lack of one or the other working was the reason you pulled the chute to begin with!
Yup - But I think that was more of a marketing gimmick than anything. It's cost-prohibitive to rebuild 'em, which is why the insurance companies generally decide not to. You not only have to re-do the top part of the plane where the chute came out, you also have to re-build the landing gear, as it has probably collapsed like it's designed to.
How big a deal can either one of those be when compared to the replacement cost of the airframe?