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Pilot Unhurt After Plane's Parachute Cushions Crash Landing
KIOWA, Colo. -- A small plane pilot walked away unhurt from a crash near Kiowa early Sunday after he deployed the aircraft's parachute system, authorities said. (www.thedenverchannel.com) さらに...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
+1 for Cirrus Design Corp. "Any landing you walk away from is a good landing" even if the airframe is a total loss.
ongoing stories about cirrus accidents like this make me wonder why the thing really needs the parachute in the first place. i wouldn't call this a landing. i'd call it giving up instead of doing what you should've been trained to do. i don't know the specifics about this accident, but based on a lot of other CAPS deployments, i'd say too many pilots are using it as a crutch.
I very much agree with Jason on this one. I personally know a couple of Cirrus drivers that always seem to be flying with one hand on the handle. I also have about 300 hours in SR-22's and I never pull the safety pin out of the handle.
the story i heard was that the chute deployed without any input from the pilot. there is an investigation as usual. i think that it is a crutch, and a bad reason for unsafe flying. i have heard that from a few pilots, that it makes some pilots cocky, and make bad decisions.
if that is in fact the case then the pilot is lucky to come through unhurt. a lot of them don't turn out well when the pilot wants to pull the chute. it's all a false sense of safety if you ask me that leads to overconfidence and not flying the airplane. reminds me of the auto-gear extension systems on older piper arrows...and how many accidental gear-up landings it actually caused. they don't have them anymore...
For the number of Cirrus crashes vs. the total number of registered SEL aircraft, it seems to me that there is a fairly high rate of accidents in this aircraft. Am I correct? Does anyone have the stats on this? The better comparison may be flying hours in the Cirrus vs. other aircraft. Seems like they fall out of the sky on a regular basis. Having said that, I must admit that I've never flown one and hope that I'm not being unfair with my opinion...