Thomas Borchert wrote:

Baloney. They may be good PR for Cirrus, and I've long suspected this
was the only motivation behind including them, but they are lousy PR for
GA overall.

Yep, 3 dead would have been much better PR for GA. And the plane would
probably have shedded the ice while spinning through 5000, too. Great!

What's wrong with you guys?

Thomas Borchert (EDDH)


Nothing Thomas. Some of use sense an issue that cannot be resolved by
the BRS crutch. What led that pilot to take off into icing conditions
that the plane could not handle? Since only a very small percentage
of aircraft have BRS-like systems, if hundreds more pilots did what
that pilot did then planes would be impacting ground with deadly
consequences. Since I know of no issues with the Cirrus aircraft when
flown in non-icing conditions, we have to evaluate if the pilot made a
potentially deadly error in flying that day. Prevent that sort of
error and we won't have to ask whether planes descending under a
parachute (possibly on top of someone eventually) is good or bad PR.

Ron Lee