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And different for altitudes. 170 knots is slower than I ever saw. Here is 192 at 17,000 feet. 75% power. The turbo Cirrus is a beast. The NA… meh, just another vanilla high performance plane. ;-)

Well that doesn't give much insight into what happened.

If you put Brigham City (LHO just like it is spelled) you miss the Bravo completely and stay over lower terrain. Some of the mountains east of SLC are well above 11.5. Your direct route takes you right over Kings Peak which is 13,528 feet elevation.

Going places, hard to beat a Cirrus in the unpressurized world, as long as it holds what you want to take. The numbers you posted above seem a little slow. A well tuned Cirrus at FL180 should be closer to 200 knots. At least 190's. Has a great community with a lot of support from the COPA...

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I think that is related to the need to have clearances, ATC communications and such recorded.

I thought it was pretty standard to have a hand mic?? All of my planes have had them, but I can't recall if they are on the MMEL list. As to what I think per the OP is a lower time pilot, flying a plane in busy airspace with any degraded equipment is unnecessarily complicating the flight...

You can train in a Cirrus. Will take longer, and be a lot more expensive, but in the end you will be pretty good in the Cirrus. Did I say a lot longer and a lot more expensive? I think with very long training, it can be easy to get discouraged and when discouraged entertain quitting...

That is some ugly icing. The ice below the wing adds weight and drag, but the real danger is ice on top of the wing that kills lift, and you cant see that from the pictures. Looks like a close call. Caravan, I assume?

My understanding. I have a whopping hour and change in the PC12, so no expert. But here from the POH.

Not sure there is enough data out there to make such a statement. The PC12 is a complex aircraft with a lot of potential failure modes, and this could have been out of the realm of the pilots ability to fix the problem. The way that big moveable horizontal stab works, if it went full deflection...

Have to try pretty hard to crash a DA42. Great, stable airplane. And to the post above the gear on that aircraft would be quite at home on a carrier based aircraft. See pic.

One of my favorites is in the south, Jawja. Pronounced just like a sophisticated southern gentleman would say Georgia. Is crazy woman still active? CZI, figured they would take that one out.

I have declared some emergencies, have handled real medical emergencies on airliners, am a command pilot with Angelflight and have had to divert for a sick pax. I am also a critical care doctor. As said above, turning an urgency into an emergency and causing loss of separation can box everyone...

Plane in cruise up high cruises at about 135 indicated, 200 KTAS. Here are some other aircraft as comparison. As a percent of Vne/Vmo, the M350 and the PC12 have the highest buffer. Aircraft Vmo/Vne Va/Vo %Va/Vmo E TBM 930/960 266 158 59 PC12 240 160 67 M600/M700 251 153...

Most of that true, except the wings are plenty strong, and they slow down really well. Most have speed brakes, and even those that don’t, dropping the gear is like dropping 3 big speed brakes. Just don’t lose control and get into a spiral dive, which is how they usually break. Spiral dive, pull...

Nexrad is pretty good for long range planning, but up close use abundant caution. As long as you FULLY understand that Nexrad will show stuff that is not there, will sometimes not show stuff that is there, and anytime that it shows stuff it is never completely accurate as to location and...

Definitely worth practicing engine out landings from cruise altitudes all the way to the runway. might need to pick a rural airport to make that happen, because coming in from 5 miles away simulated engine failure it is hard to fit into the pattern of a busy airport. But it’s a teachable and...

The hazards of mairjuana use, especially in the young are being explored, and the findings are not good. There is big money in big marijuana and they are infusing millions into trying to convince society that this all natural (genetically enhanced, chemically concentrated, extremely complex...

I was kind of thinking the same thing as rhkennerly. Unless you’re on fire, there is really no reason to be doing a true short field landing in a gusty crosswind. But then, sometimes people do like doing those night instrument landings to minimums in the mountains, on a short field that is iced...