A little help on the post crash analysis if you will.
Background, a ScottGlass Talon (added 8 inches), weight 6.5 lbs, dual deployment, PML CPR retro, piston on droge, nomex bag main, deployment charge - black powder 1gr.
Flew this Saturday on a I211. Great lift, drouge at appogee, main did not pop at as set (600ft). The charge did fire however.
When crash site was inspected the nose cone was ejected but this may have been cause by contact with ground. There was no black powder risdue around the fracture in the body tube.
My guess is that the chute was too tight in the tube which then created an over pressure (wittness by the risdue trying to make it's way back into the altimeter bay). Can a chute be too tight? It was a skyangle wrapped in nomex.
thanks in advance
Dennis
Background, a ScottGlass Talon (added 8 inches), weight 6.5 lbs, dual deployment, PML CPR retro, piston on droge, nomex bag main, deployment charge - black powder 1gr.
Flew this Saturday on a I211. Great lift, drouge at appogee, main did not pop at as set (600ft). The charge did fire however.
When crash site was inspected the nose cone was ejected but this may have been cause by contact with ground. There was no black powder risdue around the fracture in the body tube.
My guess is that the chute was too tight in the tube which then created an over pressure (wittness by the risdue trying to make it's way back into the altimeter bay). Can a chute be too tight? It was a skyangle wrapped in nomex.
thanks in advance
Dennis