cjpilot710(at)aol.com
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 Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:46 am Post subject: engine failure & parachutes |
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In all the discussions of engine failure and bailouts, no one has said the major advantage in ground operations. What? you say. A parachute (and helmet) save my personal carcass from major a major hurt to these old bones. At a AYS formation clinic several years ago, part of the clinic training was parachute use, and one part included exiting the aircraft. It was than asked that each flight on their next sortie practice egress after engine shut down. The idea was to show and let the crews experience cumbersome nature of extraditing oneself with all that stuff on. Once on the wing, you were considered done with the exercise. So with plugs pulled, canopy back, belt off, I pull myself up and out on to the wing. Done. Now with all my gear on, I stepped back to put my foot in the step, to step down. The chute belonged to me and why should I take it off on the wing since I was going to carry it right to my own plane? My foot slipped off the step. My nomex cloves, could not hold my grip on the canopy rail and down I went. HARD. I landed on my left side and back. The parachute back pad cushioned the impact. Next my head hit the blacktop. The helmet saved me from real major brain hurt. Laying there, knowing what had happened, I could not believe that I wasn't hurt. Nor could the laughing crowd around my carcass. I still don't know if they were joyous at my misfortune or that I wasn't hurt.
Having made 7 jumps years ago while flying for a skydiving club, I have no qualm about leaving an airplane and almost did once when I thought I had a fire. All the discussion points brought up in other e-mails are good ones. But they are only good if you as the individual think out those points your self. It works better if you've practice those steps, (cords, canopy, belts) in the quite of your hangar. Go though the scenarios in your own mind, that would make you conceder going over the side.
I once flew a beautiful CJ-6 into the dusky murk and mire of the LA basin. On up to the north over the mountains in the dark, with bright stars overhead, I flew.
With me was a trust in the Almighty, a parachute, and a plan. The "parachute plan" had started at 1,000 agl and ended at 1,000 agl.
Jim "Pappy" Goolsby
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