I would still consider the Avidyne PFD to be good enough to fly in IMC - all the "6 pack" information is on the PFD. I think any PPL is able (should be) to do 180 in IMC, the problem in this case, IMHO, is that the pilot didn't noticed the attitude (nose way down, high bank and speed sounds like spiral entry to me) while looking at MFD and obviously wasn't able to recover on instruments (didn't have any training). I guess in
this situation opening the parachute wasn't such a bad option.
On the speed the parachute has got opened - the Cirrus has
demonstrated speed no maximum speed for deployment.
Psychologically, if the parachute encourages the pilots to be more reckless or not I don't know, I know that until I get my IR I'm maintaining 1.5km/1000 feet from them clouds
