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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
May 19, 2013
Description:
Finally a BRS in a Gyro,
making it one of the
safest ever. This is an
Xenon with a
beautifully mastered
hollow main mast to
allow for the BRS
installation. Comes on
floats as well !
www.germangyro.de
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Don Maxwell - May 19,2013
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Schöen! (If they actually bring it to market.) Danke, Dave.
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Kenneth Leonard - Jun 04,2013
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Ok, I'm just being difficult, but if its in constant autorotation, why do you need a chute? And if the rotor is <br />gone so you need a chute, the mast (hence, the chute) is gone too... Are there any examples of <br />incidents where a chute would have saved a gyro?
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Jim Ratte - Jun 04,2013
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A BRS would have certainly saved my friend in his gyro last month. His rotor actually stalled, machine rolled over inverted and augered in from 125 feet. This was on a new machine, with a new pilot and he had been fully checked out by two cfi's in gyros.
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Kenneth Leonard - Jun 07,2013
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Truly sorry you lost a friend Jim.
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Jim Ratte - Jun 07,2013
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Thanks Ken. What truly gets me is that we have two pilots on the field with an absolute disregard for safety, whether on the aircraft they fly or those they fly over. Yet they always return.<br /><br />My friend spent 6 months going through his machine, others had looked it over that either owned or had flown the same model. The gyro when purchased from the seller had blades on it other then the mfg supplied blades - he bought new ones and replaced them. The engine was worn out, he put a brand new one on. He was a PPC instructor and well regarded as a instructor. He organized community events.<br /><br />Always seems like the good ones have to leave us....
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Don Maxwell - Jun 07,2013
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Jim, we had a SeaRey builder and STS member who died similarly in a gyro about six or seven years ago. I heard that he was going too fast for conditions and the rotor got too 'flat' and stalled, but don't know for sure that that's what happened.
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Roberta Hegy - Jun 08,2013
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Would a BRS deploy enough to save an aircraft (and passengers) at only 125 ft agl?
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Jim Ratte - Jun 08,2013
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BRS recommends deployment from 300 ft minimum, but there has been recorded saves from as low 60 ft. Your either going to hit on the nose or tail (from higher altitude the swinging would stabilize), but better then being dead.
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