Sport Pilot Talk

Just got my GRS parachute repacked ( new rocket etc ) on my Sting S4 at SportAir in North Little Rock.
Total cost was $7405 - pretty much an arm and a leg but they are the only game in town so if you want to have a legal chute for another 9 years , it is what it is.

I had to do the repack + rocket replacement on my BRS a while back. It was around $4k and I had to do all the work of removing and installing, plus refueling the rocket. It was not hard but it is critical work if you want the chute to work...

Parachutes are great safety equipment, but they're not cheap. If your airplane is ELSA you could always defer the maintenance a year or two and trust that the intervals are very conservative. Just to time it with my annual I deferred mine about six months. At least that way you are getting a little more time value to the big expense, but you have to decide your risk tolerance on a technically out-of-date safety system.

Actually on Stings I can just placard it as INOP and don’t worry about repacking it - it is officially allowed by the factory. In fact, a few years back a Sting in Florida pulled on an out of date ( by 3 years I think ) chute and it worked like a charm …
But like you said, chutes are great safety equipment and frankly since I bought a plane with it in the first place, as long as I can afford it, I will keep it up to date.

https://www.aviationsafetyresources.com/ did my Magnum repack for under 1k in less than a month. contact Mark McElhaney

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