Halp OMG Juli has lost the plot.
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The FAA requires that reserve parachutes get repacked every 90 days, whether they're used or not. This has to be performed by an FAA Master Rigger and the going rate, on a civilian drop zone is about $50 per repack. Multiply $50 by 300 by 4 times per year, and you're looking at an additional $60,000 per year per plane. You'd also have to store the parachutes somewhere that the passengers couldn't get too them during a routine flight, otherwise they'd have to be inspected after every flight to make sure they hadn't been tampered with.
As bad as the financial problems are, they wouldn't be anything compared to the technical problems. You have 300 people scared out of their minds trying to don a piece of gear they are completely unfamiliar with, move to the rear of the plane, and jump out.
Assuming that's no problem, when 300 people run to the rear of the plane, the Center of Gravity will shift beyond the Aft CG limit and the plane will stall, the people will be pinned to the ceiling until the pilot recovers from the stall (if he can,) then slung to the floor. The plane probably isn't in very good condition in any case (everyone's jumping out after all) so this problem is more likely.
Next you've got exit speed. A commercial airplane cruises at about 400-500 knots. Standard parachutes are made to open at speeds more along 110 knots. No parachute I know of is designed to open at 4-500 kts. It would either rip the fabric of the canopy to shreds, break most of the lines on the chute, or rip the harness out from between your legs (maybe taking them along.) The only way to slow down to the proper speed would be to jump out and freefall for a while until you reached a slower speed, then deploy. Obviously, this isn't possible with a static line system, and even if you did give the passengers a manually deployed chute, how many of them are going to wait more than a nanosecond before they pull the ripcord or throw out the pilot chute.
As bad as the financial problems are, they wouldn't be anything compared to the technical problems. You have 300 people scared out of their minds trying to don a piece of gear they are completely unfamiliar with, move to the rear of the plane, and jump out.
Assuming that's no problem, when 300 people run to the rear of the plane, the Center of Gravity will shift beyond the Aft CG limit and the plane will stall, the people will be pinned to the ceiling until the pilot recovers from the stall (if he can,) then slung to the floor. The plane probably isn't in very good condition in any case (everyone's jumping out after all) so this problem is more likely.
Next you've got exit speed. A commercial airplane cruises at about 400-500 knots. Standard parachutes are made to open at speeds more along 110 knots. No parachute I know of is designed to open at 4-500 kts. It would either rip the fabric of the canopy to shreds, break most of the lines on the chute, or rip the harness out from between your legs (maybe taking them along.) The only way to slow down to the proper speed would be to jump out and freefall for a while until you reached a slower speed, then deploy. Obviously, this isn't possible with a static line system, and even if you did give the passengers a manually deployed chute, how many of them are going to wait more than a nanosecond before they pull the ripcord or throw out the pilot chute.
Syrup Beaver
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How many civilians do you think would keep their cool to prepare themselves to hold their breath for 2 minutes when a plane's going down?
Syrup Beaver
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YES I BELIEVE THAT ILLUMINATI HAS NOW TAKEN OVER THE WORLD.
I'VE READ AND READ AND READ, AND LEARNED. THINGS ARE NOT JUST ONE BIIG ASS RUMOR MADE UP BY ONE PERSON.
IF YOU THINK SO, YOU'RE MORE CRAZY THAN I AM AT 12AM WHEN MY ADHD KICKS IN AND LIAM GETS SPIDER HAND & SUSPENDED JELLYFISH ON HIS FACE IN PLACE OF FOREPLAY!
READ PEOPLE, AND THEN ARGUE.
ALSO, I DON'T GIVE A FUCK WHAT ANYONE THINKS.
I'VE READ AND READ AND READ, AND LEARNED. THINGS ARE NOT JUST ONE BIIG ASS RUMOR MADE UP BY ONE PERSON.
IF YOU THINK SO, YOU'RE MORE CRAZY THAN I AM AT 12AM WHEN MY ADHD KICKS IN AND LIAM GETS SPIDER HAND & SUSPENDED JELLYFISH ON HIS FACE IN PLACE OF FOREPLAY!
READ PEOPLE, AND THEN ARGUE.
ALSO, I DON'T GIVE A FUCK WHAT ANYONE THINKS.
YES I BELIEVE THAT ILLUMINATI HAS NOW TAKEN OVER THE WORLD.
I'VE READ AND READ AND READ, AND LEARNED. THINGS ARE NOT JUST ONE BIIG ASS RUMOR MADE UP BY ONE PERSON.
IF YOU THINK SO, YOU'RE MORE CRAZY THAN I AM AT 12AM WHEN MY ADHD KICKS IN AND LIAM GETS SPIDER HAND & SUSPENDED JELLYFISH ON HIS FACE IN PLACE OF FOREPLAY!
READ PEOPLE, AND THEN ARGUE.
ALSO, I DON'T GIVE A FUCK WHAT ANYONE THINKS.
Read this, and you'll really freak out at the implications. There's probably a really good movie plot out of this if I could write it without getting my ass sued by them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Oldenburg
Oops. Forgot the link. Here it is.