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Old 1st May 2014, 06:55
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mary meagher
 
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Good morning Jonzarno. Thank you for your comprehensive replies to some of my issues with the Cirrus.

Nevertheless the principle objection to the Cirrus is that it reinforces the comfortable illusion that money can buy safety.

The extra gadgets loaded into your Cirrus have tempted you, for one, to do most of your flying IMC (I assume this means flying under enroute controllers guidance, and not necessarily in the clouds with no view at all), and most probably, to avoid fatigue on long journeys, on auto pilot most of the time.

So the same problem of boredom, of fatigue, of reliance on all those expensive aids may surprise you into the kind of mistake made by the Asiana pilots flying into San Francisco on a CAVOK day. Not flying the aeroplane.
Blaming the equipment.

It is all very well to praise the get out of jail card when it saves your passengers. But the basic skills are still important, and tend to atrophy with reliance on automation.
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