Cirrus SR22 Purchase advice needed.

Mike Murdock ) wrote:

Apparently doing acrobatics despite placards prohibiting them. See
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...02X00613&key=1

As a local to this particular crash and as one who has talked to many about
it, I am of the belief that these two pilots were simply checking out their
newly-delivered Cirrus using all the standard private pilot air maneuvers
(stalls, steep turns, etc.). They were not performing prohibited
aerobatics.

What appeared to have doomed them was their decision to perform multiple
power-on stalls in a row. During a power-on stall, the pilot botched the
recovery and the aircraft entered into a secondary stall followed by a
spin.

The question that will never be answered is why didn't they use the BRS?

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Peter

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:12:43 -0400, Peter R.
wrote:



The question that will never be answered is why didn't they use the BRS?

Why do you assume they didn't. At the time of that crash Cirrus had a
history of parachute deployment failures. One under actual and 2
during a factory sponsored demonstration to prove the system worked..
After that the deployment mechanism in the entire fleet was replaced
with an AD. The last SB that I am aware of for the parachute was
issued less then 6 months ago.

Can anyone provide the group with one authoritative (not opinion) source
that states the Cirrus SR 20/22 is an unsafe airplane.

I can not find any data to suggest the Cirrus SR series has design
flaws, or is inherently an unsafe airplane. Are you folks actually
reviewing the NTSB reports?

Opinion is one thing, but uneducated and unfounded opinion is something
else.

Mike $$$

"Mike Money" wrote in message
...
Can anyone provide the group with one authoritative (not opinion) source
that states the Cirrus SR 20/22 is an unsafe airplane.

I can not find any data to suggest the Cirrus SR series has design
flaws, or is inherently an unsafe airplane. Are you folks actually
reviewing the NTSB reports?

Opinion is one thing, but uneducated and unfounded opinion is something
else.

Since the words "safe" and "unsafe" are rather subjective, that's all you
could get is an opinion, either which way.