Kingfish schrieb:

Agreed. The responsibility always falls on the pilot to not fly into
known icing conditions (in a non-icing equipped acft), but the BRS
system should be an adequate back-up in case of that decision making
process breaking down.

And this is exactly the dangerous mindset. When affordable handheld GPS
units became available, I've read quite a few accident reports where VFR
pilots took off in marginal conditions and navigated GPS based "ad hoc
IFR" into terrain. I expect to read a couple of accident reports in the
near future where pilots fly their Cirri into hostile conditions for
which the plane wasn't built, thinking they could rely on that chute as
an "adequate backup". Hardly a design flaw.

Stefan