Modesetter, Landing with the chute fully deployed is said to feel like falling off a 2 storey building. Its like the old mushroom parachutes, if you dont roll properly on landing you break legs. The undercarriage is designed to take some of the impact along with the honeycomb structure within the seats. I reckon the airbags would be as useful as big saggy ones on a bull, but there you go.
I wonder if one bought an aircraft that cost say......$100,000:00 less than a Cirrus (because it didn't have a ballistic parachute thingy) and then spent that $100,000:00 on pilot training if the out come would have been any different?
Ways to spend the $100,000:00 on pilot training:
Learn to fly a glider
An aerobatics endorsement
All sorts of Flight Safety courses
A couple of Lycoming engine courses
Old mate in Omaha's engine course
Not second guessing the dood, wasn't there but maybe money could be better allocated than a ballistic parachute thingy (there but for the grace of God go I!!)