Shame the Cirrus electrical system is so poor...
Please explain. The Cirrus Perspective aircraft have a 100 amp ALT1, 70 AMP ALT 2 and dual batteries. Due to the diode interconnect there is no action required during an alternator failure.
Re the electrical system - Cirrus fixed the anemic ALT2, but has not fixed the strange / complicated connection of BAT2 to the essential bus with no proper instrumentation. So the checklist includes a simple BAT2 on only check as part of the pre-flight, but other than that... As part of my familiarisation I go through all the failure modes in the electrical system and it took me a loooong time to figure out what exactly happens when what fails.
As I said before, all of the differences between the Columba and the Cirrus are down to preferences - you could equally say fair enough, but I don't want to do a cross-tie check as part of every pre-flight and would like an automatic failover....