PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Newbie looking to upgrade to Cirrus
View Single Post
Old 24th Nov 2012, 20:38
  #116 (permalink)  
mary meagher
 
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Oxford, UK
Posts: 1,546
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Odai, from your OP, I understand you have about 55 hours and have not yet completed your Private Pilot License.

I don't know anything about the Cirrus, except that it seems to show up in the news when the owner by poor planning or general incompetence has to pull the chute. Destroying the aircraft, usually, but saving his butt, and his passengers.

Much is made of it being a slippery type, and just like in a high performance glider, the approach speed must be nailed.

I'm not going to give you any advice at all, at your stage of experience you still have a lot to learn. But please can I say to all you chaps who find the GPS an exceedingly useful device, which I used extensively and happily when it first appeared, do not spend so much time looking at your fancy instrumentation, but look out for other aircraft. Not a word has been said about lookout in this entire discussion.
mary meagher is offline