Co2 cartridge re-fills

> Most people use the CO2 cartridge SMB's for emergency only.
> For this purpose they're ideal as
> - they're a lot smaller than the ones with 0.1L bottles
> - you always know the bottle's full.

Do the bottles leak at all? A friend at work as a private plane, and to get
the life-jackets through whatever test they have to pass he has to weigh the
bottles annually to see if they have leaked. Is this leaking the same for
diving, or is it just
being anal for aircraft?

Cheers
Matt.

Imorital wrote:

> Do the bottles leak at all? A friend at work as a private plane, and to get
> the life-jackets through whatever test they have to pass he has to weigh the
> bottles annually to see if they have leaked. Is this leaking the same for
> diving, or is it just
> being anal for aircraft?

I suspect the latter. Out od curiosity, have any commercial
planes managed to land on water without breaking up and/or
sinking before anyone can get out with those wonderful
life jackets?

- Keith

"Keith S." <keith_s@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:bptmdh$1tbs6f$1@ID-169434.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Imorital wrote:
>
> > Do the bottles leak at all? A friend at work as a private plane, and to
get
> > the life-jackets through whatever test they have to pass he has to weigh
the
> > bottles annually to see if they have leaked. Is this leaking the same
for
> > diving, or is it just
> > being anal for aircraft?
>
> I suspect the latter. Out od curiosity, have any commercial
> planes managed to land on water without breaking up and/or
> sinking before anyone can get out with those wonderful
> life jackets?

Not big ones, that's for sure.

As soon as you hit the water, the wing tips come off, smashes the engine and
fuel lines up and the whole thing goes up in a big fireball.

Alun Harford

> As soon as you hit the water, the wing tips come off, smashes the engine
and
> fuel lines up and the whole thing goes up in a big fireball.

Happy flying everyone! ;o)

David

"Alun Harford" <alunharford@yahoo.com> wrote...

> Not big ones, that's for sure.

> As soon as you hit the water, the wing tips come off, smashes the engine
and
> fuel lines up and the whole thing goes up in a big fireball.

Stop trying to frighten the children Alun
http://www.airsafe.com/events/ditch.htm

Keith L

Keith S. <keith_s@ntlworld.com> skriver:
> Imorital wrote:
>
>> Do the bottles leak at all? A friend at work as a private plane, and to get
>> the life-jackets through whatever test they have to pass he has to weigh the
>> bottles annually to see if they have leaked. Is this leaking the same for
>> diving, or is it just
>> being anal for aircraft?
>
> I suspect the latter. Out od curiosity, have any commercial
> planes managed to land on water without breaking up and/or
> sinking before anyone can get out with those wonderful
> life jackets?

There are some examples on:
http://aviation-safety.net/events/RECW.shtml
http://aviation-safety.net/events/REED.shtml

http://aviation-safety.net/database/1952/520727-0.htm
http://aviation-safety.net/database/1996/960405-1.htm
http://aviation-safety.net/database/1982/820910-0.htm
http://aviation-safety.net/database/1978/780508-1.htm

http://aviation-safety.net/database/1984/840228-0.htm
http://aviation-safety.net/database/1969/690113-0.htm


So it could could be good that the life jacket works.
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