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Old 22nd June 2012 | 12:43
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Cobalt
 
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Happily, pilots are not demanding en-mass, the provision of parachutes, so obviously there is a very low perceived risk of needing it, and I support that view...
At the higher end of the piston single Market they do - the sr22tn outsells the corvalis 400 by an extreme margin, not all can be explained by price alone.

In any other class this is a moot point as the pilots can demand all day, there just aren't any twins or turboprops with chutes - although, intersting enough, the turboprop kitplane single Epic has one.

If I am ever in a position to spend half a million on an aircraft, and it is a 20 grand option, I would buy the chute even if it had four engines.

If I had that money and had to choose between the corvalis 400 and the sr22t, I would probably go for the sr22, although the corvalis is a better aircraft (if you have 800m runway). If I had the choice between two new twins, it would be similar for me.

Only when you enter cas-only, twin-turboprop or better operations it stops to make sense.
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