Rocket Deployed Emergency Recovery Parachutes

[Mark Grima]

Hi all,

Last week I was in a short presentation with the ATSB during which these systems were discussed.

I had never heard of them and was rather surprised that they exist. A booklet we were given, dated June 2010 suggests they are only in a small number of Cirrus aircraft but can be retrofitted to many Cessna's.

I was wondering if anyone was aware to how prevalent they were and if anyone had seen them work in testing...presuming no one has been in an aircraft and had to deploy one for real!

Cheers

M