US makers Precision Aerodynamics say they have been besieged by calls about the £500 chutes — billed as a “last resort” for those trapped on top of burning high-rise buildings.A rival, the Emergency Building Escape Parachute, will cost £1,575 or more — depending on the customer’s weight.
Precision Aerodynamics’ brochure says the chutes, developed after the September 11 atrocities, will open automatically.
It adds: “Simple steering and landing techniques can deliver you to the surface with confidence.”
But the American Parachute Industry Association said most people who used the products would DIE.
I just checked the dollar to pound exchange rate, and the cheaper of the two from your link, Precision Aerodynamics, would be inline with executivechute pricewise, ~$720. But with Precision Aerodynamics' product you'd have to steer, and does it work from as low as the 10th floor as does executivechute's parachute?