Hi Billy,

on my F-4, I kept trying to come up with a system that would break away if the chute released in flight, but it would always break on landing. I ended up using one of John Redman's chutes and it worked but I think it would not have broken off the plane if it came out while you were flying.

Also, with my F-4 it needed about 3/4 throttle just to taxi with the chute out so I really think you might want to be able to release the chute on command. You can of course design a system that opens the chute with a servo, then it releases the chute with more travel. That was not practical on my plane. Also, I did not have any more channels to have a release, but I had an idea to do a release with no extra channels.

You could have another servo for securing the chute to the plane and tie that to the flap channel . When the flaps are up, if the chute inadvertantly deploys it will just fly off the plane. When the flaps are down, it would lock the chute to the plane. After you land, you raise the flaps and release the chute.

regards,