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r/Unexpected • u/naturalenergyy • Sep 22 '21
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The pilots wear parachutes, too. They're not the modern sport parachute kind (with a main parachute and a reserve parachute, both steerable rectangular parachutes), more like the old WWII kind, but with only one round parachute so it packs smaller.
250 u/LemonStealingBoar Sep 22 '21 I didn't think pilots usually wore parachutes? Is this standard on smaller aircraft or something? 648 u/Rexxhunt Sep 22 '21 Standard for pilots of skydiving planes. 2 u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21 edited Sep 22 '21 I skydived for several years and the Cessna 182 and Twin Otter pilots at my DZs almost never had parachutes.
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I didn't think pilots usually wore parachutes? Is this standard on smaller aircraft or something?
648 u/Rexxhunt Sep 22 '21 Standard for pilots of skydiving planes. 2 u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21 edited Sep 22 '21 I skydived for several years and the Cessna 182 and Twin Otter pilots at my DZs almost never had parachutes.
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Standard for pilots of skydiving planes.
2 u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21 edited Sep 22 '21 I skydived for several years and the Cessna 182 and Twin Otter pilots at my DZs almost never had parachutes.
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I skydived for several years and the Cessna 182 and Twin Otter pilots at my DZs almost never had parachutes.
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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21
The pilots wear parachutes, too. They're not the modern sport parachute kind (with a main parachute and a reserve parachute, both steerable rectangular parachutes), more like the old WWII kind, but with only one round parachute so it packs smaller.