Hi Roger,

I seriously doubt there's much wrong with the Cirrus design. OTOH
people should not be comparing them to Cessnas, unless it's a 210.

There is one on our field and it's cruise is 20 knots faster than my
Deb and my Deb has had a lot of mods. I flight plan 160 knots. That
Cirrus easily makes 180 knots without straining.

Now take new, relatively low time pilot in high performance/complex
and you have the proverbial 130 MPH mind in a 220 MPH airplane. Add
to that the low timers are more likely to think that chute is
something they can rely on to keep them out of trouble.

I now took the time to seriously look at the NTSB reports. And I agree to a
large extent.

Pilots regularly get caught VFR into IMC in Cessnas and Pipers. Now
add between 50% and 100% to the speed and they can get into trouble
much faster. It's the speed that gets them into trouble, not so much
folding feet in say a Bonanza.

The fate of many well designed high performance singles...

Was there a non-deployment of the chute after the AD regarding the handle? I
just found the preliminary report about the 'remove before flight' pin and
just couldn't believe it. Sadly

Kind regards,
Peter