Flew an SR 22 today

How much runway did you use?
 
asicer said:
How much runway did you use?
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Last landing, all of it, the rest were touch and goes and I would guess maybe 1,000 or so from touchdown to takeoff on those. Sweet airplane.
 
PaulS said:
Last landing, all of it, the rest were touch and goes and I would guess maybe 1,000 or so from touchdown to takeoff on those. Sweet airplane.
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P'shaw. I've done touch and goes in under 2 feet. On one tire. And sometimes 3 in a row on a single approach. ;)
 
Hope now that you’ve had a flight ,your going to buy one.
 
asicer said:
P'shaw. I've done touch and goes in under 2 feet. On one tire. And sometimes 3 in a row on a single approach. ;)
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Instructor with me, had to do it right. Did bounce, very slight on one touch and go and the last one, but no big deal, just kept the nose wheel off and land.
 
as an opposing point of view - I got a chance to fly one a while ago. honestly I felt bad for the owner because it didn't even feel like I was in an airplane. I thought I would be excited and enthused about it and all I wanted to do was get out of the SUV.

Different strokes, I guess.
 
asicer said:
How much runway did you use?
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Depends entirely on the final approach speed. I landed an SR22 on 33 CHS a couple weeks ago and exited at A which is about 1800’ without having to stand on the brakes.

Airplane can land short just fine. Some pilots on the other hand....
 
Lndwarrior said:
as an opposing point of view - I got a chance to fly one a while ago. honestly I felt bad for the owner because it didn't even feel like I was in an airplane. I thought I would be excited and enthused about it and all I wanted to do was get out of the SUV.

Different strokes, I guess.
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It’s an entirely different kind of flying...altogether.

Not bad, just different. I enjoy flying them for work, but it’s not the kind of airplane I’d own.
 
Lndwarrior said:
as an opposing point of view - I got a chance to fly one a while ago. honestly I felt bad for the owner because it didn't even feel like I was in an airplane. I thought I would be excited and enthused about it and all I wanted to do was get out of the SUV.
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If you call a Cirrus an SUV, what do you call...say a Cessna 206?
 
Yes I get the low and slow thing, but to say it doesn't feel like an airplane, um, no, it felt exactly like an airplane, and I liked it.
 
FormerHangie said:
Not sure what you're getting at here.
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You gave four choices: an ugly SUV; an old, ugly SUV; an ugly fixed gear; and an ugly retract. I'll take the ugly retract, because at least it picks up it's wheels like it's supposed to . . . .

On the other hand, "if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with."
 
I had my SR22 based at KHWO in Hollywood, FL. Runways are all just over 3,000'.

With proper airspeed into the flare, my goal was to make the midfield turnoff, and I usually managed it without undue braking.
 
Hank S said:
You gave four choices: an ugly SUV; an old, ugly SUV; an ugly fixed gear; and an ugly retract. I'll take the ugly retract, because at least it picks up it's wheels like it's supposed to . . . .

On the other hand, "if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with."
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Cirrus:
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206:
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Not seeing any mobile landing gear here, I'm familiar with the 172RG, the 177RG, the 182RG, the 210, but have never heard of a 206RG.
 
My bad, I'm not very familiar with the big, ugly Cessnas, just the little ugly ones. Guess I was thinking of the 210.

Can I pass on the question and simply quote Crosby et al again?
 
Hank S said:
My bad, I'm not very familiar with the big, ugly Cessnas, just the little ugly ones. Guess I was thinking of the 210.

Can I pass on the question and simply quote Crosby et al again?
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I'm good with that.

 
I've flown as pax in a SR22. I don't get the SUV reference/comparison at all. More like this: maserati.JPG
 
iflyvfr said:
I've flown as pax in a SR22. I don't get the SUV reference/comparison at all. More like this:
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Yep. Passengers love them; I've flown Angel Flight passengers in 172, Arrow, Seneca, SR22, Baron 58. What's not to like, much wider than most GA planes, two doors and good window area. Yeah, you can see the ground a bit better in a high wing. Plus they climb well and cruise pretty quick, getting out of the warm bumpy air quickly and to your destination quickly too. Plus the displays make is look "new and modern" to the non-pilot.

It's not the plane you want for turf runways (other than very well manicured) or acrobatics or low and slow, but for traveling they are a really good option.
 
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