"Richard Kaplan" wrote:
What volume of chute deployments will turn the Cirrus into
the safest GA airplane but ironically economically
non-viable to insure?

That depends on how many pilots get trigger happy about pulling the
'chute in otherwise recoverable situations. If the sum of 'chute and
non-'chute accidents produces a total loss rate higher than for similar
aircraft, that would certainly cause high insurance rates.
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Dan
C172RG at BFM
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