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Pardon for asking but what exactly is that?

STEC 55 In 2015 Cirrus, LOL, now I am starting to get a full picture about your Cirrus 'expertise'. This actually sumps up all your Cirrus posts quite well, you might have sat in one, I frankly doubt you flew any.

I don't know about 'easy' but it can be done if you have propensity for self-study, I did it, there is plenty of good self-study material video/books. Actually this is quite inexpensive for the Bay Area, I am paying more than double that amount.

The problem with products like Simionic, Mindstar is that these are knock-offs which are reversed-engineered replicas of the real G1000. They only implement a subset of G1000 functionality. For a VFR pilot they could be enough but if you are a serious G1000 student specially in IFR world they...

Sorry, I don't get this question, I don't feel any aileron spring-loading, perhaps there is one but the effect must be way too weak for me to ponder about it and have positive/negative opinion of any kind, complete non-issue as far as I am concerned. If we are supposed to be in a Cirrus-bashing...

The best and most cost effective way is to get yourself Max Trescott's G1000 book (exceptionally well written) and pair it with the Garmin G1000 PC trainer which Garmin sells for around $30 (someone mentioned it above). And then you learn the best possible way - by actually using it in a...

I have been sitting in one for 3 months, about 3 times per week and so far I would rather spend another 10 years in this than in a Skyhawk/Archer where I spent previous 10 years. And in an unlikely event I develop a Cirrus phobia - old school aircraft are only 100 feet away.

Serious? Titanium is expensive and difficult to work with. It could have saved some weight while making already expensive airplane totally unsalable. And add serious weight and another quarter million $$ to its price? o_O

Disagree strongly, I find Cirrus' interior fit/finish/design much superior to Cessna's, can't talk about Beechcraft never flew one, never sat in one. But having made transition recently to a Cirrus I promised myself to never fly piston Cessnas, Pipers again. And this extra 4" in cabin width is a...

It is interesting that Cessna prescribes full flaps in 152 for emergency descent, but if it is in POH - I would follow the POH. In Cirrus - no flaps.

Not sure what the big deal, they are conducting interference testing (so they are on purpose monkeying around) so signal may get unreliable. Reliability of GPS signal for basic en-route navigation is phenomenal, it is WAAS that sometimes may be unavailable (worst in Alaska but in my CA precision...

Complete baloney.

I don't know what you fly but in the Cirrus that I fly tiny power adjustments are difficult, the throttle is a bit 'sticky', there is no way to adjust throttle smoothness like say in the Skyhawk, trying to make a tiny power adjustment I have to grab the throttle from below trying to finesse its...

I will tell you what I heard from my Polish friend (I am of Polish descent too, he, he) who was a flight instructor at the flight school in Hillsboro, Or where most students were from China. Those students arrived on the Chinese government sponsored plan so they passed initial English tests in...

I find the opposite to be true. It is much more difficult to make small adjustments in power than in pitch, the power technique is also a slower method, there is a delay, also this isn't technique typically taught in textbooks or by instructors. Le me quote from Peter Dogan classic: Once the...

Unlikely, flew too many different 172s, simply much more stable platform and much more tolerant for my imperfect rudder control. Actually the instructor admitted this is the case due to Cirrus’ anti-stall strip on the wing or whatever it is called. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

I think Cessna 400/TTx is even sexier but the available pool of these aircraft is much smaller than in the Cirrus case, the aircraft is slightly narrower inside than Cirrus but is a bit faster and it has a true joystick and Garmin 2000. I never flew one, never saw one at any airport but it...

I think they do make sense, they make sense because they differentiate between someone who makes aviation his business versus someone for whom it is a hobby - consistent with other spheres of human activity. But this is just my opinion. But you can petition your lawmakers to rewrite the rules...

Desperate? And it takes 3 days for the Chinese air traffic system to find a spot for your Cessna if you want to do some cross country flight ... I don’t think they are desperate enough. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

Yeah, the so called “witnesses” - as historical track record shows their observations are next to worthless, remember all those “witnesses” who saw missiles fired towards TWA800 flight? They were well meaning folks who could swear on a Bible that this is what they saw... Sent from my iPad...