I think this is a very interesting first hand account of a recent chute deployment.
The purpose of the thread is not to rekindle the debate about chutes (albeit it probably will
) but to hear from a pilot who found himself in serious difficulties on an approach and who would almost certainly not be able to give this account were it not for the chute. In short its the sort of incident we never hear the pilot's side of.
Its interesting to speculate what you might have done differently and at what point you would have decided to relinquish flying the aircraft and pull the chute.
As I said it might make the discussion more interesting if we try and avoid going over the usual chestnuts about whether the chute is a good thing and whether it encourages pilots to do something they wouldn't if it were not for the chute. Lets just take it as read the pilot got himself into the situation for whatever reason and the chute happened to enable him to survive a pretty harsh lesson.