Should I upgrade from Skylane to Cirrus SR20? (not mxmaniac infested)

On 2007-06-13, Thomas Borchert wrote:
Gwengler,

a) parachute equipped airplane pilots tend to assume greater
risk ("all I have to do is to pull the handle")


Any kind of factual support for that statement? Even a hint would
surprise me.

Actually, percieved risk homeostatis is a well established psychological
phenomena - i.e. given safety improvements, a person generally will take
more risks until they are back at their normal level of risk comfort. So
people with ABS brakes and airbags tend to drive faster (and possibly
more recklessly) compared to when they didn't have ABS and airbags. It's
been cited in many road safety studies. There's no reason why it
wouldn't apply to aircraft.

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