Indeed the improvements in Cirrus training and communications has had a fleet-wide positive effect. I do think calling all of the no-life-lost deployments "save

Indeed the improvements in Cirrus training and communications has had a fleet-wide positive effect. I do think calling all of the no-life-lost deployments "saves" is disingenuous at best and more likely intentional shading of the truth. We don't call every airbag deployment without loss of life a "save" but we can draw database-wide conclusions about how many net lives were saved. In CAPS case, I don't believe the most accurate estimate of lives saved (vs a counterfactual where the airplanes did not have CAPS) is 258 across 126 events, as many of those occupants would have also survived the event without CAPS. PS1: I saw what I think is that same ASF video ( https://youtu.be/fLlWf-Fk_YM?t=10m https://youtu.be/fLlWf-Fk_YM?t=10m ). Really frustrating, especially how obvious it was an emergency to everyone except the two people on the radio (where the bulk of blame belongs to the pilot of N4975S. PS2: One of my instructors was in CAPS Event #59. I talked to her afterwards; she was a fan. :)