Since the vast majority of accidents are caused by poor decision making, low currency and a lack of training/familiarity with a machine.
The thought of most PPL's I have met (I hasten to add that hopefully the folks I've had a hand in training don't fall into this category) jumping into something like a Cirrus with a minimum of training fills me with dread.
A Cirrus is fast, complex and very different from your average spamcan and requires differences training and maybe even a type rating. I hope we don't wait until there are accidents before this becomes reality.
The thought that you recover from an unusual attitude by switching on the autopilot fills me with horror.
Aztruck, I hope that isn't the case! If so, it shows a startling lack of understanding by the manufacturer of what happens in a cockpit when someone panics after everything goes wrong unexpectedly. That would be the first time I would totally ignore something in a POH!
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