"Mike Schumann" wrote in
k.net:

The bigger issue is whether pilots are taking risks with Cirrus planes
that they wouldn't otherwise take, because they know they have a BRS
chute available.
Snipola

Well, yeah. That's why I'm asking about training or guidelines.
Let me make an admitedly uneducated example, just being a sim
pilot at the moment....say I encounter icing conditions at 3000
AGL and start to lose control, I would try to recover the plane
until I got to the minimum recommended BRS deployment altitude
instead of just popping the thing right away. I guess what I'm
saying is, the BRS is meant as a last resort option, at least
that's the way I view it. If I've done everything I can to
rectify the situation and nothing's working, then pop the chute.

Brian
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