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What a great day!!!
The last couple months have been filled with problems for me. First an emergency appendectomy then I came down with a virus that's been extremely hard to shake and to top it off I'm having really serious trouble with my lower back and neck due to previous injuries I received in an automobile crash.
This morning I received a call from Skipper Stephens from the Saint Clair Flight Academy at PHN, my home airport. He's a good friend and CFI I've had the pleasure of flying with for my BFRs and some commercial training. He called me this morning to invite me out to the airport because he had arranged to have a couple of guys from Cirrus bring two of their airplanes out to give demo flights.
I had the pleasure of spending half an hour in the left seat of a fully loaded Cirrus SR22. What a gorgeous airplane and I was very impressed with the cockpit layout, the glass screens, the way everything was in easy reach and how quiet it was with the Bose headsets we were using. I was even more impressed with the handling and responsiveness of this airplane. I felt so natural sitting in that left seat, it was as if the airplane had been made for me.
Tom Sullivan, the regional sales manager for Cirrus, put the airplane through it's paces giving us a very good demonstration of it's flight characteristics. He also did a good job of explaining the capability of the rather extensive avionics package. We finished the flight with an ILS approach to runway 04 and circle land. The approach was flown completely by the Stec model 55 auto pilot and pretty well, I might add, in spite of the rather heavy cross wind. Over the inner marker we broke off the approach and circled to land on runway 10.
All I can say right now is thank you Skipper for inviting me and thank you Tom for the great flight in a truly wonderful airplane. Although I still love my Cardinal, it just won't be quite the same after today's flight in the Cirrus. Now I just hope that lottery ticket I bought last night is a winner. LOL
Jeannie
The last couple months have been filled with problems for me. First an emergency appendectomy then I came down with a virus that's been extremely hard to shake and to top it off I'm having really serious trouble with my lower back and neck due to previous injuries I received in an automobile crash.
This morning I received a call from Skipper Stephens from the Saint Clair Flight Academy at PHN, my home airport. He's a good friend and CFI I've had the pleasure of flying with for my BFRs and some commercial training. He called me this morning to invite me out to the airport because he had arranged to have a couple of guys from Cirrus bring two of their airplanes out to give demo flights.
I had the pleasure of spending half an hour in the left seat of a fully loaded Cirrus SR22. What a gorgeous airplane and I was very impressed with the cockpit layout, the glass screens, the way everything was in easy reach and how quiet it was with the Bose headsets we were using. I was even more impressed with the handling and responsiveness of this airplane. I felt so natural sitting in that left seat, it was as if the airplane had been made for me.
Tom Sullivan, the regional sales manager for Cirrus, put the airplane through it's paces giving us a very good demonstration of it's flight characteristics. He also did a good job of explaining the capability of the rather extensive avionics package. We finished the flight with an ILS approach to runway 04 and circle land. The approach was flown completely by the Stec model 55 auto pilot and pretty well, I might add, in spite of the rather heavy cross wind. Over the inner marker we broke off the approach and circled to land on runway 10.
All I can say right now is thank you Skipper for inviting me and thank you Tom for the great flight in a truly wonderful airplane. Although I still love my Cardinal, it just won't be quite the same after today's flight in the Cirrus. Now I just hope that lottery ticket I bought last night is a winner. LOL
Jeannie
