What have you flown before? Did you and your passenger wear a chute?
Why do you feel the need for a chute when flying a Lancair?

Chat Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Kossi [mailto:kevin@airforcemechanical.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:29 PM
To: Lancair Mailing List
Subject: [LML] Re: Exiting a Legacy post crash

Chatfield S. Danie" wrote:

  Just a comment.  Do you plan to wear a parachute every time you fly.
  And if you had a parachute, do you really think you could get out of a
  spinning airplane...especially one not designed for it.  To my
  knowledge, there has never been anyone to bail out of Lancair or RV  
for
  that matter.  Your time is better spent learning how to prevent a
  situation where you would want to bail.
   Chat Daniel
  Lancair Super ES
  RV-8


Yes, me and my passenger,  that's why I am making it as comfortable  
as possible.

I have taken spin awareness, avoidance and recovery classes, I plan  
to take an aerobic class to learn how to deal with unusual attitudes.  
I am all to conscious of the dangers of a spin in a Legacy, or any  
other plane for that matter. It's something I will try to avoid. But  
in life, especially when you are closer to the edge as pilot are,  
unexpected things happen with bad consequences. I could fly into the  
wake of a 747 or bad wind shear, I could loose my rudder or an  
aileron, I could accumulate ice, structural failure. all these events  
could lead to a spin. The point for me is; if there is chance of  
something bad happening it is my responsibility to myself and  
passenger to do what I can to avoid it and what I can to deal with it  
if it happens. Who knows if I will be able to get out of the plane  
due to the G forces, but I will try my damnedest. There have been  
plenty of pilots that have gotten out of planes in a spin, just  
because you have never heard of anyone baling out of a Lancair or RV  
is meaningless to me. How many have the ability to eject their  
Canopies? How many have parachutes? There must be a reason why the  
FAR's call for a parachute when pilots do "an intentional maneuver  
involving an abrupt change in an aircraft's altitude, an abnormal  
attitude, or abnormal acceleration, not necessary for normal flight."  
Or "A bank of 60 degrees relative to the horizon" or "A nose-up or  
nose-down altitude of 30 degrees relative to the horizon". What's  
important is pilots die in spins and I will do what I can to survive.



Kevin Kossi
Legacy 55%
New York


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