YAKIMA, Wash. — CubCrafters has introduced new emergency parachute systems for the company’s line of backcountry tailwheel airplanes. The systems were developed in conjunction with BRS Aerospace.
The BRS parachute systems are offered on CubCrafters’ production Carbon Cub SS aircraft, as well as the company’s Carbon Cub FX Builder Assist model and its EX-2 kit.
Systems are also available for retrofit on CubCrafters’ existing fleet of LSA and experimental aircraft.
Three new BRS models are immediately available for these CubCrafters airplanes:
- New production LSA aircraft, including the Carbon Cub SS, for gross weight up to 1,320 pounds (1,430 pounds on floats). For this configuration, the BRS system weighs 34.3 lbs. and is priced at $13,990 installed.
- Retrofit on the existing fleet of LSA Carbon Cub and Sport Cub models, for gross weight up to 1,320 pounds (1,430 pounds on floats). This version weighs 41.4 pounds and is priced at $15,990 installed.
- Carbon Cub EX-2 and FX experimental aircraft for gross weight up to 1,865 pounds. This configuration weighs 43.5 pounds and is priced at $11,990 as a kit, or $15,990 installed.
The new BRS systems require annual inspection, a parachute repack every six years, and a rocket refresh every 12 years.
These services, as well as installation of retrofit systems on fleet aircraft, can be performed at CubCrafters’ Yakima, Washington, facility and at select CubCrafters Authorized Service Centers in the near future.
The first CubCrafters BRS system has already been installed and delivered on a new Carbon Cub SS, company officials report.
To those of you nay sayers… If you don’t want a chute, don’t get one. What’s it to you if someone else does and who are you to judge, especially when you don’t know THEY’RE specific circumstances. You probably live in the flat lands. Regardless, be hopeful you never find yourself wishing you had one installed as you’re searching for a spot to set down in terrain.
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Chose. The wonders of spell correction.
Here’s another one — drone strike.
Do we know if they have actually fired a rocket attached to the airframe?
Hello. I am an A & P mechanic, based out of Bend, Oregon. Is it possible to get added ro the list of approved installers, inspectors for the CC?
I have experience with Flightdesign, Cirrus aircraft BRS systems. I can travel to surrounding states to perform inspections as needed.
Thank you,
Kenny
Wonderful. Now the Carbon Cub people can join with the Sirrus people and parachute down whenever they see a cloud, run out of gas or just get stupid.
41 lbs? Not a good trade off.
I own a CC. What about the fact that each and every take off will be compromised by being 41 pounds heavier?
Why???? LOL… Marketing to fools…
When your cub gets hit by another plane and the tail section is ripped off, or you find yourself with an engine out over mountains with no safe place to put it down, I bet you’d be happy to sacrifice 43lbs to ensure a crash with little or no injury.
Read the NTSB reports of actual chute deployments. It’s true some of them likely could have been survived without it (assuming everything went as planned), but a number of them very likely would not have been. It is a license to learn, after all, so learning from others’ experiences seems like a better use of time than name calling on the Internet.
Yeah, having a way out when the engine quits and there is no landable terrain below you is a bad idea?
I have a Carbon Cub (CC) and a parachute is redundant. The CC is a parachute. regardless of the cost, I wouldn’t like to add the 40 LB or take up the space. No CC is IFR certified so you would have to lose it VFR and that is very hard to do.
Have a midair collision or mechanical/medical issue which results in uncontrollable airframe or incapacitated/disoriented pilot and you’ll appreciate the BRS.
Have a midair collision or mechanical/medical issue which results in uncontrollable airframe or incapacitated/disoriented pilot and you’ll appreciate the BRS.
Heart attack? Blinded/incapacitated after bird strike? Other unexpected health emergencies? Why not a parachute to also protect those on the ground?
“BRS Save #141
I am an ultralight flight instructor examiner (UFIE). I teach aerobatics and hold a FAA low altitude aerobatic competency certificate for performing airshows in certificated aircraft.
On Oct. 4, 2001, I was doing intentional spins when the rudder on my aircraft suffered a
mechanical/aerodynamic lockup at approximately 2000 feet. I tried opposite aileron, adding power, reducing power, nothing worked. It surely would have been a fatal accident without my BRS. At 750 feet AGL, I pulled the handle. It was an easy pull with an immediate “pop” and the spin stopped almost immediately leaving me in an upright level flight configuration. I was able to restart the engine and “adjust” my landing site. The parachute reacted well to application of
power with no adverse reactions.
If you are reading this and other testimonials to help you to decide whether you should buy one, trust me, BUY ONE”
— http://www.brsaerospace.com/files/brsparachutes/files/141.pdf
The next best thing to an ejection seat!
SWEET! My dream plane just got BETTER!