Safety with BAS harness and low backrest seat!
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Safety with BAS harness and low backrest seat!
In upgrading the aircraft with harnesses, does it make sense if you are using the original seats with low backrest? Since in a forced landing, whiplash injury could be just as fatal or severe as having regular shoulder belts? Any toughts?
Alvin Sandoval RPVM Cebu, Philippines
1952 170b, RP-C399, SN. 25287
2001 Robinson R22BII
1952 170b, RP-C399, SN. 25287
2001 Robinson R22BII
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I think the shoulder restraints are a good idea,to keep your face out of the panel if you crash into an embankment,another plane,or suffer any other type of sudden stoppage of forward motion. I wouldn't think whiplash is much of a concern unless you're hit from behind or crash into the ground while doing a tailslide. Neither seems too likely.
Eric
Eric
I agree with most of what Eric said: Shoulder harness will keep your face out of the panel. I have the BAS and the reason I chose BAS is not cause I got lotsa money to throw at the plane, but because it was the only one that would keep me tight in the harness even when reaching for the flap handle; just like in the car, it follows your movements.
Recently, a friend of mine went off the runway in a Stinson while getting checked out (no brakes on co-pilot side) and no shoulder harness. Result: He got a fat lip with cuts and bruises; the fellow in the co-pilot seat suffered multiple cuts, bruises and a couple of fractured vertebraes. Main gear hit a ditch, left wing hit a tree. Stories like that is why I never fly without shoulder harness.
JD
Recently, a friend of mine went off the runway in a Stinson while getting checked out (no brakes on co-pilot side) and no shoulder harness. Result: He got a fat lip with cuts and bruises; the fellow in the co-pilot seat suffered multiple cuts, bruises and a couple of fractured vertebraes. Main gear hit a ditch, left wing hit a tree. Stories like that is why I never fly without shoulder harness.
JD
Ground Loops and nose-overs are most likely the accident type you will suffer in a taildragger. Keeping your face out of the panel and the control column out of your solar-plexis is what will make it merely an embarassing incident/accident instead of a nasty emergency-room visit or "blunt-trauma" fatality. "Whip lash" is an automotive type injury and is rarely mentioned in aircraft accident reports.
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