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Old 30th Apr 2014, 23:36
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dera
 
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"VMC into IMC, icing incidents, aircraft upset" seem to happen more often to Cirrus pilots than others.
Here's why I think that is (I only have flown a SR20, I believe SR22 is similar in its design philosophy?).

Cirrus is very much a procedurally operated airplane, as opposed to other more conservative planes produced by Piper and such. It has very little to no feedback to pilot apart from the instruments on what the plane is currently doing. Quiet cabin, no real feedback through controls and so on. Alot of the flying is done using autopilot (which is worrying, there are many CAPS "saves" caused by autopilot induced problems).

For a less experienced pilot, you can easily slowly end up being badly behind the airplane.

On a surprising situation (such as uncommanded autopilot action etc) and a pilot without considerable hand-flying experience, it is very difficult to get back ahead of the airplane. That is why many of the CAPS "saves" are due to simply losing control of the airplane.

This is my opinion, happy to hear why it's wrong
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