Minimum Safe Altitude For Bailout

[JG27_Mainz]

Anyone happen to know the minimum altitude that you can bail out and have your parachute deploy?

[[CPT]Crunch]

On a transport IRL with a backpack chute 400 feet was absolute min, your chances of injury were high, but that was a clear shot through a door unobstructed.  Won't hurt to hit the QMB and test it out, you won't die testing.

[69TD_Hajo_Garlic]

If your nose is up you can pretty low if you are going fast enough. Straight and level probably 150ish meters. If you are low and have some control it’s best to just drop gear, maybe flaps and ditch instead of bailing 

Edited November 4, 2021 by Hajo_Garlic

[Rjel]

Zero-Zero as seen here. I pulled this off several years ago.

 

 

[II/JG17_HerrMurf]

10 hours ago, Hajo_Garlic said:

If your nose is up you can pretty low if you are going fast enough. Straight and level probably 150ish meters. If you are low and have some control it’s best to just drop gear, maybe flaps and ditch instead of bailing 

 

Ditching (no gear) has become FAR more hazardous since the last patch. Ground strikes have killed my pilot a couple of times with seemingly minor impacts. It was mentioned in a DD that they increased pilot injuries from ground impact and I concur. Bailing out is a better option, if it's available, than a no gear landing now.

[69TD_Hajo_Garlic]

1 hour ago, II/JG17_HerrMurf said:

 

Ditching (no gear) has become FAR more hazardous since the last patch. Ground strikes have killed my pilot a couple of times with seemingly minor impacts.

I agree, I have died on every ditch attempt I have not dropped gear on since the patch. Im probably jinxing myself but deploying gear and some flaps has yet to kill me unless I was already badly wounded. I fly a decent bit of ground attack so sometimes I am too low and slow to get to a safe altitude. Before the patch it was way too forgiving when you could land a 262 going 800kph on its engine nacelles but I do think they could tone it back a little bit so ditching with no gear has better results than parachuting in water.

Edited November 5, 2021 by Hajo_Garlic

[II/JG17_HerrMurf]

Oh, and to address the OP. I'd use 200m for straight and level on a jump. If you can get the nose up at all, I've been successful at 100m and less. Gravity is not your friend on a jump.