Hudson river?
I'm sorry but I just don't buy this
No engine is no control to me, but not to these people.
approach!
I don't consider myself arrogant or ignorant. I'm not highly experienced but I am reasonably experienced. I learnt to fly gliders before powered aeroplanes so maybe that helped me realise that an aeroplane will fly once the donkey quits! That said, I don't think power only pilots are ignorant of that fact either but it does seem to frighten some!
On the Cirrus site they seem have an excuse for every failed deployment saying it was "outside the envelope" .... ok, I accept that. Funny though, how Cirrus seem to be developing into one of the highest fatality light aircraft? Maybe they are just attracting a lot of pilots who really are fatalistic and think "I can just pull the chute if I get into trouble"? Ok this might work in the right circumstances but many such pilots seem ill equipped to then deal with the times when those circumstances are not right.
So ... Why is the fatality rate so high in this "safe" aeroplane? I don't really blame the aeroplane btw.
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