The Cirrus chute is meant to recover from situations that competent
piloting cannot reliably recover from (e.g. spins). It's not meant to
substitute for knowing how to fly.


And how exactly would your competent pilot above get into that spin?

If "competent" pilots weren't doing dumb things quite regularly, 90
percent or so of all GA accidents wouldn't happen. So, in theory, your
remark sounds nice, but either the current training rules allow a
majority of incompetent pilots to get through, or competent pilots are
way more fallible than you seem to think. Heck, even a Scott Crossfield
can die in a thunderstorm. If that guy wasn't competent, most of us
have to stop flying at all.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)