In an upcoming issue, you'll find my feature story about the harrowing experience of Dr. Richard McGlaughlin and his daughter Elaine as they rode a BRS airframe parachute canopy into the water near the island of Andros in the Bahamas. The good doctor had decided to buy a Cirrus with its standard-installation BRS whole-airframe parachute, because he knew his monthly volunteer work would require hundreds of miles of over-ocean flying every trip. The story you'll read will take you inside the cockpit and inside the head and heart of Dr. McLaughlin. For this column, I wanted to serve up some supplementary info I didn't have room for in that story.
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