Quote Originally Posted by Floatsflyer View Post
There might be a psychological debate that goes on in the brain at the time of crisis and impending doom--to pull or not to pull.
Denial, in situations like this, is common. The pilot just doesn't believe it's actually happening to him/her.

If that aspect is shed, then we get to your psychological debate. Pulling the chute handle is a binary situation: You go from "I've got this" to "There is a problem that my skills cannot overcome." Sadly, there's a portion of the pilot community that believes that the chute is the coward's way out. "Shut up and die like an aviator," to use the old Navy quote.

Ron Wanttaja