Cirrus chute deployment -- an incredible story

Jose,

Once the pilot had recovered, the =emergency= was over.

No, it wasn't. The reason for his blackout was completely unknown. The next
blackout could have come any time. He had no idea how likely that was. The
emergency was still in full progress.

As I said in another post, the underlying attitude shown by some here is the
typical pilot machismo we all know so well - from accident statistics.

My understanding of the Cirrus (I've never flown one) is that the chute
decision is to be made pretty much instantly (to preclude further
development of the spin for which it is designed). This training leads
to sub-optimal results when the emergency is not a spin.

So what was "sub-optimal" in the result of this? The guy lives, no one got
hurt.


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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)