On 12 Dec 2005 21:57:29 -0800, "Robert M. Gary"
wrote:

Some think so. The Cirrus is arguably marketed to the lowest time
pilots, those less likely to have an instrument rating. Unlike a Cessna
172, a Cirrus is fast enough to actually be used to go places quickly.
That combintation (good travel plane, designed for low time pilots) may
make it more likely to have the types of accidents expected of lower
time pilots.


The Cirrus should be thought of as a new composit Bonanza and flown
like one. Retractable feet are not that much of a concern to most of
us. Pilots treat them like other planes with fixed gear and they
aren't. They are like a very high performance plane that happens to
have the gear down all the time.

People think of them like a 172 or 182 that might be a bit faster when
they are not only much faster they are sliperier than snot on a door
knob.

If every one thought of them as a fast and slipery airplane and I'd
bet the stats would change.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com