Scheduled flight with your own parachute?

Hello.

Is it permitted to carry your own parachute on a regular commercial airline? Or will you be required to put it in the carry-on baggage compartment (where it's no longer of any use)?

Of course, I know that normally you can't get out of the plane if it crashes. But if it breaks apart in mid-air, or a large part breaks off and I fall out, the parachute can still be of some use…

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FelixA388
4 years ago

Hello,

the parachute doesn't help you. Whether it's in the baggage compartment or directly on you. Because if an aircraft breaks in the air, and you are at an altitude of 14-5 kilometers, you are unconscious and no longer capable of opening the parachute by the lack of oxygen within a few seconds. The impact takes place in a few minutes.

If you are under 5000 meters, the probability is minimally greater. However, it is so rare that an aircraft breaks "ideal for you". In addition, you are still hanging on the seat with the belt and most likely on larger aircraft parts. This weight can no longer brake your parachute. And a buckle becomes hard.

And the whole thing comes to being so shocked for a few seconds that you are completely incapable of acting.

And when the plane breaks at the start, you may be at 1000 meters high, 5 seconds shock are estimated 100 meters less. Compress and skip from the aircraft, against the airflow and suction, in the best case takes 10 seconds, which means that the aircraft is already in the case. Height: in the best case 500 meters. Free fall, trigger, unfold and use the braking effect = 5 seconds, 200 meters height. The minimum opening height of parachutes is 250-500 meters high. Well, and that's how the chance of survival is as high as any other victim.

So, leave this with the parachute, planes are also so safe, and the chance of survival is hardly higher in the case of cases. Overcoming your fear of flight, it definitely helps more.

Here is another question linked to the topic:

Greetings

wiki01
4 years ago

Parachutes do not bring anything at all at the speeds that a passenger plane reaches in the travel flight.

But if it breaks in the air, or a larger part breaks away and I fall out,

You can assume that in the scenario you can no longer act because the centrifugal forces of several G prevent you from acting. In addition, you will suffer fatal injuries if you are exposed to an airflow of 900km/h from one second to the other. This is not like mission:Impossible, where you could stick to a flying plane outside. In addition, you suffocate in the height before you come into an air layer where breathing is possible.

I know an accident with an airplane full of parachute jumpers who were ready to jump off when a wing broke off. Not one of the parachute jumpers made it out of the plane, everyone died.

wiki01
4 years ago
Reply to  Gladiator69

Just before landing? Then the parachute won't go fast enough. Aside from the fact that you don't get out because the centrifugal forces are holding you back. Quite simply to prevent further questions and further spinnera: The parachute is a snap.

RedPanther
4 years ago

Is it allowed to carry its own parachute in a normal plane?

I don't know what he's talking about when he meets the hand luggage guidelines.

Or you are asked to put the hand luggage compartment

Yes of course. It's a stinky baggage.

where he doesn't get me

He's got nothing on your back, too:

  1. You don't get out of the plane during the flight.
  2. The travel speed of a passenger plane is far too high to get out. It literally tears your skin off – and the parachute bag will separate from your body. Either the straps tear or it tears off corresponding limbs.
  3. When you get out at the altitude of your trip, you will not find enough oxygen to breathe and at least lose consciousness. If your parachute opens in altitude, so that you spend a lot of time at high altitude, you will have the best chances to freeze.

But if it breaks in the air, or a larger part breaks away and I fall out

If your plane breaks in the air, it's too late for a reaction before you get what's going on. Of the fact that most people in fear of death are incapable of doing nothing.

the parachute can still bring me some…

About as much as an air mattress in the middle of the Pacific. If you feel this as "one", okay.

RedPanther
4 years ago
Reply to  Gladiator69

Don't parachutes automatically go when you approach the ground?

Depending on the model. There are, of course, those with an automatic system which determine the height by means of the air pressure and then open the parachute at a certain limit.

You can't use such a parachute in the passenger plane. Because even in the cabin the air pressure changes – your parachute would trigger any normal sinking flight.

So I'm gonna have to wait until I get slower?

No: Before getting out. The biggest problem is the moment you get out of the wind shadow of the aircraft fuselage into the wind.

By the way, this even affects throwing seats in combat planes. The pilot must also no longer trigger it above a certain speed. Thanks to protective clothing, helmet and everything, this speed is, of course, much higher than the jumping speed at parachute jumpers.

RedPanther
4 years ago

It would solve a problem. But this is only helpful when the question is answered as you even get away from the plane. For this purpose, the combat pilot has a centrifugal seat that blows the cockpit hood away and transports the seat together with pilots with rocket thrust away from the pilot.

TomEF98
3 years ago

Whether the parachute is on your back or in the hand luggage compartment, it doesn't matter, it doesn't bring anything like that!

You should probably take him on board, at least at the start and landing you would have to take him off and store him safely as a hand luggage (because otherwise you could not sit properly and safely)

But what does the parachute do? Line aircraft have pressure doors designed to ensure that the doors cannot be opened in the cabin with overpressure. Although this could be done theoretically with a great deal of strength, since most aircraft doors go outwards and forwards, they could hardly be opened or kept open enough to get out because of the flight at at least about 240km/h. And even if, in military aircraft, where soldiers get out through side doors during the flight, there are flaps that distract the air flow from the door that is virtually in the wind shadow. Without it, you can be slapping against the door frame or immediately behind it to the hull and bringing you fatal injuries. It is not worth building corresponding doors, because even in panic many passengers would probably not jump, and if not could land safely. The chances of survival are higher for everyone even at a breakage!

BrascoC
4 years ago

If the parachute meets the conditions for the hand luggage (size, weight), you can also take it.

But if it breaks in the air, or a larger part breaks away and I fall out, the parachute can still bring me a lot…

Right. If the plane breaks up to 10km, the parachute will also do nothing.

BrascoC
4 years ago
Reply to  Gladiator69

No one would ever fight with a mind. A parachute doesn't help you in such a machine.

And yes, I guess you'll be allowed to do it. Mainly the part does not fly through the cabin at turbulence.

wiki01
4 years ago

Or if a supporting surface tears off.

You can't do anything anymore. The accelerating forces occurring are much greater than the body forces themselves of the strongest man in the world. The G forces nail on your seat or somewhere in the cabin, and you can't even lift your hand. The demolition of a wing is probably the worst thing that can happen, the plane goes into a spin immediately, from which you can't free yourself. Read my post!

BrascoC
4 years ago

Head –> table.

Yeah, take your parachute and jump out.

BrascoC
4 years ago

If you haven't read it, although I mentioned it twice, a parachute won't help you!

jewelcat
4 years ago

If you meet the requirements for hand luggage with the baggage, you can take it to the cabin.

But you will have to stow it accordingly, and thus he will use you nothing more. So my advice: Take a good book, drink a good whiskey and enjoy the flight. If the worst case fits, you still had pleasure, he doesn't happen to be a good flight from what to do.

Chris1004
4 years ago

A parachute wouldn't bring you anything.

Chris1004
4 years ago
Reply to  Gladiator69

How do you imagine a parachute at about 10Km height?

Chris1004
4 years ago

Exactly.

wiki01
4 years ago

How do you imagine…

Not at all.