At 13:58 01 October 2019, Burt Compton - Marfa Gliders, west Texas
wrote:

A wet chute can freeze in place. If leaving a glider with a chute out
overnight, dew can form on the glider and will run to the ground and
into
the chute and statics. My recommendation is to remove the chute
and tent,
not cover, the statics with tape.

Also check with the seller whether this Cirrus is German or VTC
built.
There are big differences.

Frank Whiteley

Good advice! After deploying and on rollout I would jettison the drag
chute to minimize ground damage and then hang it in my home or
hangar until
re-packing it into the container for my next flight. Hanging lets it
unwrinkle and it stays dry.

In my experience the Open Cirrus has reasonable airbrakes (i.e.
superior to the Open Libelle, Phoebus C, and SHK) that the drag chute
isn't really that necessary - only if you had really made a pigs ear of
your field landing selection would you need it.