Larry,

The way I read the quote from the SR22 POH, it requires 920' to fully
deploy the CAPS. Do you have information to the contrary?

No, it'S just not the way I read it. I read it as saying it requires 920
feet coming out of a full spin turn. And that's what it says.

So you feel that less altitude would be required for full CAPS
deployment if the aircraft hadn't archived "one full turn in a spin?"

Would be kind of logical, wouldn't it, that there's a difference to pulling
at straight and level? But I can't prove it.

So to characterize the SR22 CAPS as a safety enhancement
(for other than spin recovery, and possibly a MAC, structural failure,
loss of control, and landing in inhospitable terrain, *if* they occur
above 920') is inappropriate.

Are you able to provide any credible information about the
circumstances to which you refer?

The NTSB records will provide with several accidents that did not include
(your list following) spin recovery, MAC, structural failure, LOC and
inhospitable terrain. That alone, though, is a pretty good list of stuff to
be saved from, don't you think?

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)