While I don't really agree with most sentiments re the BRS here - to me it smacks a little of the 'don't use GPS for navigation'
argument - I wholeheartedly agree with this:
It essentially says if you teach people to fly in a TAA - using the auto pilot and glass screens - they have insufficient flying skill to manage the aircraft if theautos give up - which then leaves then with only the 'chute as an option.
In fact, you can read a lot more about this general trend right here on Pprune, just pop over to the R&N forum and read the AF477 thread(s) and some others. Scary stuff.
By all means get yourself a BRS equipped a/c, I think it'll be a great thing to have, but learn to FLY airplanes first! That way you will hopefully never need it.