Nope:
> > There are very few emergencies (in my opinion) in which parachute deployment would be the appropriate response unless there was an extremely unfortunate set of circumstances which led to the airplane being unable to fly or glide (like a wing snapping off)
> I've been a Cirrus instructor for 15 years. This attitude is completely wrong and is exactly what has led more people to be killed than needed to be, especially when Cirruses first came to the market and the chute was a new thing in production aircraft. We TEACH, intentionally, people to ask FIRST, "do I need to use the chute," and the answer is never "no." It's either, "Yes," or "not yet."
> There have been pilots - plenty of them - that had every opportunity to use the chute but kept gliding, or spinning, or whatever, and now they and their passengers are dead.
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> Lose the engine - most of the time, pull the chute. Yes, even better than landing in a nice open field. The chute works. If I screw up the landing, or the field has ditches, furrows, irrigation, cows, power lines, fences, rocks, or who knows what else, I might just be screwed setting a plane down at 65-70kts. But not if I float down into it protected by my roll cage, high-g seats, air bags, etc.
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