Correct - several major Cirrus underwriters have gone on record that they would waive one's deductible in the case of a CAPS pull. They'd rather see you live and pay out for the plane than have a customer die for a variety of reasons (some financial but I tend to believe that they genuinely, just like us, would much prefer to see a fellow pilot alive and well and with his/her family than in a casket).
You can't... But you can keep practicing under simulated conditions. If you practice enough your confidence level, and skill level, should be pretty darn high.
The recent ones are more related to the pilot forgetting to switch tanks and running one tank out versus running it completely dry.
I really wish the FAA would allow a "both" setting on the low wings. They require the tank switch for "safety", but multiple planes have crashed due to pilots forgetting to switch.
Fuel pressure to the lower tank depends on the relative height of the fuel tanks and the central tanks. Tough to get the central tank really low, in a low-winged plane.
Tanks are inboard in the wings to minimize out of balance conditions if both tanks aren't the same (like during XC flights). They are full thickness on the wings, there may be another inch or two worth of drop to the bottom of the belly, certainly no more. That won't push much gas . . . It works in high wing planes because there's a significant height from the bottom of the wing to the carburetor
They could if they pressurized the fuel tanks or put a fuel pump in the fuel tank like they do on cars.
Cars only have one tank. Which fuel,pump are you going to run? Now instead of selecting the wrong tank, you'll just select the wrong fuel pump.
Both, they run on demand, simply maintain fuel pressure, pretty common for fuel injected engines.
Yea the composite big bladed prop is like a giant speed brake. I was able to slow the 22 down from 160 to 80 on about a 1 mile final.
This has happened once in just under 150 deployments in Cirrus, low enough that it's not relevant.
True, but how many of the "saves" are actually a save, and if the pilot continue on could have safely landed?
How do you score it? If there are ten chute pulls that resulted in live pilots, and three of the ten would have died if they'd attempted to land, is that an argument for or against the chute? What if two pilots would have died? What if six would have? In other words, how many people have to NOT die to make the chute worthwhile?
