The insurance guru, Sky Smith, is a member of our local EAA chapter. He presented a insurance program, one meeting, in which he told us that when insurance companies caculate premim rates, they figure that if you deploy the BSR chute while in flight, the aircraft will be a total loss. They believe the sudden deacceleration stresses (160 mph to zero in a matter of seconds) of chute deployment and your random landing on whatever terain is below you (trees, rocks, mountains, houses), is so unpredictable that they must assume the worst and the airraft will be totaled. Your airplane insurance premiums will be higher with a BSR, than an identical airplane that has none.
Brant Hollensbe bhollen...@mchsi.com DSM Iowa
