How is it that having a chute could have a causal connection to accidentally
flying the airplane into a mountain? Or blowing the altitude on an
instrument approach? Or any other CFIT scenario? Also I challenge your
statement that the "CFIT rates are so high" for Cirrus. I have heard that
there are only a 1000 Cirrus's flying so far, so I can't see how there would
be any reasonable conclusion that could be made yet due to too few data
points.


"Colin Kingsbury" wrote in message
nk.net...
Not to pick on Dan personally but the "If I get into trouble I'll pull the
lever" thing has just got to be part of the reason why Cirrus CFIT rates
are
so high. Yeah it's great to have the option when your engine quits over
the
mountains at night or a wing snaps off, but there are plenty of ways to
kill
yourself that the 'chute won't do anything to prevent.

-cwk.

"Dan Thompson" wrote in message
gy.com...
The nice thing about a Cirrus is also you could always (i.e., once) pop
the
chute if the TKS couldn't keep up. I would think this would be
comforting
when choosing to fly through a what was believed to be little known ice
that
the TKS system should be able to easily handle, just in case you found
it
is
was more ice than anyone would have expected and you ran out of other
options. I think the TKS/chute combo would allow a lot of flights that
would keep me on the ground otherwise.