Regal Princess Rescue

[Colo Cruiser]

2 minutes ago, Ferd Berfle said:

 

Parachute is standard equipment on Cirrus light aircraft.

Yeah that was the name I was trying to think of.

I knew I had seen it somewhere at some point.

[MauiLvrs]

On 3/11/2019 at 7:27 PM, Ferd Berfle said:

 

Parachute is standard equipment on Cirrus light aircraft.

The parachute was required to meet the FAA spin recovery requirements because the wing is a terrible design... 

As a side effect is is sometimes useful for other things... Sometimes it makes things worse when people use them outside their useable envelope(e.g. too fast or too low)

[chengkp75]

On 3/5/2019 at 5:08 PM, CRLess said:

 

On a side note, the only bizzare thing of this whole situation...we are all standing at the railing looking for signs of life, with the Captain giving us updates every 15 minutes.  You would think that all other use of the PA system would be suspended....Nope....the Art folks felt it was very important to make sure EVERYONE knew there was a big art auction beginning soon.  I hope Capt Stringer has that person Keel Hauled for such a stupid announcement during a very serious situation.  

While it was a serious situation for the crew and the people being rescued, it wasn't that serious for the passengers, so limiting the PA system to only announcements about the rescue, while of great interest to some passengers, I will bet that there were some who didn't really care, so the art auction may have been of interest to them, since there was nothing they could do about the rescue.  The Captain had other means of communicating with the crew regarding the rescue, and his addresses to the passengers was really a distraction from the situation.

[geocruiser]

I was on board Regal when this happened.  I just can't say enough good things about the Captain , officers and crew.  What a job they did.