Originally Posted by
mad_jock
Its interesting to me that there are alot more of these things about than i presumed.
Now why does no other type seem to use them but cirrus is in the news all the time doing a red handle let down?
There are several theories to this, including:-
(1) Cirusses are prone to getting in trouble
(2) Cirusses are generally flown by people with far less flying ability than they think they have.
(3) Cirus mandate a 10 hour training course for all new pilots where it's beaten into them that the moment anything goes wrong (inadvertant flight into IMC, inadvertant spin, engine failure....) they should pull the handle.
I tend to think that (1) is a red herring as whilst I've never flown one myself, nothing I've heard from high ability pilots who have flown the type has suggested to me that there's anything wrong with the aeroplane.
G