jesse
Touchdown! Greaser!
Climbing out of a 172 and jumping out at 40 to 80 ft? Sorry, not going to work.
#1 - How do you get out of the airplane. The doors open into the wind. You're going to have to fight it
#2 How are you going to time all this? The moment you start trying to climb out it's going to throw the trim off and you'll probably just pancake nose first into the water before you even figure out HOW to get out of the airplane.
#3 A 40 to 80 ft fall with a 60 mph forward speed is going to kill you.
There is absolutely no way it would work. Plus you don't have thrust so you don't have much time at all. You'd be much better off landing it in the water - which is going to be survivable the vast majority of the time.
Look at it this way. You probably have a 90% or something chance of surviving the water landing. It might even be higher.
You have pretty much a 0% chance of figuring out how to trim the airplane, climb out, and jump, with a 60 mph forward speed. You'd likely just crash into the water and die.
#1 - How do you get out of the airplane. The doors open into the wind. You're going to have to fight it
#2 How are you going to time all this? The moment you start trying to climb out it's going to throw the trim off and you'll probably just pancake nose first into the water before you even figure out HOW to get out of the airplane.
#3 A 40 to 80 ft fall with a 60 mph forward speed is going to kill you.
There is absolutely no way it would work. Plus you don't have thrust so you don't have much time at all. You'd be much better off landing it in the water - which is going to be survivable the vast majority of the time.
Look at it this way. You probably have a 90% or something chance of surviving the water landing. It might even be higher.
You have pretty much a 0% chance of figuring out how to trim the airplane, climb out, and jump, with a 60 mph forward speed. You'd likely just crash into the water and die.
