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Originally Posted by JayAre  yeah i caught some of this #### from her. the local aviation expert was claiming the sr20 is a high performance airplane with design flaws and has to have a parchute because it has poor stall spin habits and he is suing cirrus oh yeah he is a lawyer and a jet pilot so he is an expert....im so fed up with this ######## |
Actually that IS true. The thing has the chute because they couldn't get the thing out of any spins during testing. They lost at least one aircraft like that, and decided to go with the chute as opposed to having to redesign the whole aircraft. The BRS in that thing isn't so that rich guys that get into IMC can pull the chute (like I've seen it marketed), it's so that if you get into a spin you have a way out of it.
And it probably has poor stall characteristics too, judging by the type of wing that is on the thing (laminar flow, high performance thin wing). I've never been up close and personal with one but I'd bet that it's got a few stall strips on the thing to make sure that the nose drops before it stalls.