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Understanding the parachute FAA requirements and how its tested.
Today we received this interesting question from a customer: "The minimum impact energy you show for the parachute system fitting a DJI M300 is 26.81 ft-lbs at minimum TOW, but the FAA requirement for Category 3 (flying over people) says...