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- From: pvf@alantec.com (Paul Fries)
- Newsgroups: rec.skydiving
- Subject: Re: s
- Message-ID: <pvf.725063243@diablo>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 22:27:23 GMT
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- boucher@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Richard A Boucher Jr) writes:
-
- > Somebody mentioned that Tom Piras didn't activate his
- > CYPRES because of fear that it would deploy while
- > floating.
- >
- > Does anyone know of a documented instance of a CYPRES doing
- > this? FXCs, sure, but CYPRESs?
- >
- > I thought I remembered reading somewhere recently that no
- > such problems have been encountered by CYPRES users...
-
- How does ANY device get fooled into thinking you are low enough
- to need an AAD to fire?
-
- What I mean is, I can understand that an AAD might think you are
- in freefall (maybe) while you are floating, what with the slip
- stream and/or prop wash causing weird low pressure around you.
-
- But the altitude sensing section of the AAD would be looking for
- a higher pressure, wouldn't it. So I wonder how that section
- could be fooled into thinking you are many thousands of feet
- lower than your actual altitude.
-
- Now, I am not saying I don't believe it can happen. I am just
- wondering HOW it happens.
-
- As for a CYPRES being fooled this way...
-
- I thought that a major "feature" of the CYPRES was that it would
- reject obviously eroneous data.
-
- That is, I can believe that a pressure sensor might get fooled
- into thinking that your speed is high or that your altitude is
- low, but the conditions under which these sorts of things would
- happen are transitory. For instance, it just isn't possible for
- you to be at 12000 feet one second but 800 the next, so the
- CYPRES would reject that as a firing situation. Likewise, you
- cannot be at 30 mph one second and 120 the next, so again, the
- data MUST be suspect, and should not be trusted.
-
- Anyway, I thought that the CYPRES required that the data be
- realistic before it would fire.
-
- So, can anybody out there give us an accurate description of
- the processing the the CYPRES uses?
-
- Paul Fries
- pvf@alantec.com
-