"C J Campbell" wrote:

The Cirrus has poor stall/spin recovery capabilities. It is difficult to get
the Cirrus to enter a stall, but not impossible, as some of these accidents
have demonstrated. Given that the parachute will not deploy if the airplane
is too close to the ground, the airplane itself is a slippery design that
can easily get away from the pilot, the flaps are too small, and the
airplane cannot recover from even an incipient spin, I would say that low
level flight in the Cirrus must be far more dangerous than it is in most
other aircraft. The Cirrus has a death zone in its normal operating
envelope. This aircraft cannot be safely operated below 900' AGL.

I am not sure that the last sentence makes sense. Even if all the
other attributes are correct (I have never flown a Cirrus), what is
unsafe about flying an approach at proper airspeeds.

I doubt that I could recover from a low level stall/spin (base to
final). That does not make it unsafe. I just don't get into that
flight mode.

Ron Lee