On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 05:29:09 -0500, Cub Driver usenet AT danford DOT
net wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 05:30:25 GMT, (Ron Lee)
wrote:

I have had concerns about Cirrus pilots after reading of some
of the parachute deployments.

I skim the Aero-News Propwash newsletter each morning. It often seems
that there's a Cirrus deployment de jour. Aero-News thinks it's a
great thing that the parachute saves so many air crew. I think it's a
shame that the parachute trashes so many airframes.

It's a wonder Cirrus pilots can get insurance. Are we paying for them?

We have a husband and wife who have His and hers SR22s on the field,
the cost of insurance was more for an SR22 than for a Glasair III and
they take all the training they can get. They are good pilots,
instrument rated, commercial, and active; flying over 700 hours a year
between the two of them.

What they pay on one SR22 is about a third of what I was quoted for
the insurance on a *new* TBM 700.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com



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