First SR-22 flight

I used to post on here as turboarrow, sold my plane about a year or so
ago and did some multi engine training in a sececa II, well, today I
just joined a Cirrus flight club here in the Phoenix Az area (FFZ) and
took my first flight... gotta tell you, thats one hell of a plane!!!

Fast and very slick.... most of flyign it is pretty easy, no issues...
my main issue is landing... landing is plane is easy... its getting the
plane slow and to decend... seems I get it down to 100 kts, then I have
to put the nose down to get down... in a few seconds I am at 120 kts
again... Overall very nice and fast plane, overall better esperience and
more work then I had expected.

Jeff

Gizzy wrote:
I used to post on here as turboarrow, sold my plane about a year or so
ago and did some multi engine training in a sececa II, well, today I
just joined a Cirrus flight club here in the Phoenix Az area (FFZ) and
took my first flight... gotta tell you, thats one hell of a plane!!!

Fast and very slick.... most of flyign it is pretty easy, no issues...
my main issue is landing... landing is plane is easy... its getting the
plane slow and to decend... seems I get it down to 100 kts, then I have
to put the nose down to get down... in a few seconds I am at 120 kts
again... Overall very nice and fast plane, overall better esperience and
more work then I had expected.

Jeff


Sounds like you had a good experience for the most part. What did you
think of the single-handed yoke? Some people, from no particular source,
say the trim is also touchy.

--
Mike

What is the name of this club? I haven't heard of it before...

--Dan


Gizzy wrote:
I used to post on here as turboarrow, sold my plane about a year or so
ago and did some multi engine training in a sececa II, well, today I
just joined a Cirrus flight club here in the Phoenix Az area (FFZ) and
took my first flight... gotta tell you, thats one hell of a plane!!!

Fast and very slick.... most of flyign it is pretty easy, no issues...
my main issue is landing... landing is plane is easy... its getting the
plane slow and to decend... seems I get it down to 100 kts, then I have
to put the nose down to get down... in a few seconds I am at 120 kts
again... Overall very nice and fast plane, overall better esperience and
more work then I had expected.

Jeff

I did not find the trim touchy at all, the yoke was kinda hard to get used to
for wind correction, its kinda tilted to the right so it felt as tho I had
some right aileron when I didnt. For the most part, I found that its different
then from what I hard heard about from others -- with the exception if getting
it slowed down, actually getting it slowed down was not to hard, it was
keeping it slowed down when you want to decend, the thing has a bad habit of
wanting to go fast...

Mike wrote:


Sounds like you had a good experience for the most part. What did you
think of the single-handed yoke? Some people, from no particular source,
say the trim is also touchy.

--
Mike

Dan,
I sent you an email with some information, let me know if you did not get it.

Jeff


Dan wrote:

What is the name of this club? I haven't heard of it before...

--Dan

Gizzy wrote:
I used to post on here as turboarrow, sold my plane about a year or so
ago and did some multi engine training in a sececa II, well, today I
just joined a Cirrus flight club here in the Phoenix Az area (FFZ) and
took my first flight... gotta tell you, thats one hell of a plane!!!

Fast and very slick.... most of flyign it is pretty easy, no issues...
my main issue is landing... landing is plane is easy... its getting the
plane slow and to decend... seems I get it down to 100 kts, then I have
to put the nose down to get down... in a few seconds I am at 120 kts
again... Overall very nice and fast plane, overall better esperience and
more work then I had expected.

Jeff

BTW its not a cheap club to join, not expensive, just not cheap either. Plus
you need 20 hours dual in the SR22 before you can solo
But that plane is worth it.

Jeff

Dan wrote:

What is the name of this club? I haven't heard of it before...

--Dan

Gizzy wrote:
I used to post on here as turboarrow, sold my plane about a year or so
ago and did some multi engine training in a sececa II, well, today I
just joined a Cirrus flight club here in the Phoenix Az area (FFZ) and
took my first flight... gotta tell you, thats one hell of a plane!!!

Fast and very slick.... most of flyign it is pretty easy, no issues...
my main issue is landing... landing is plane is easy... its getting the
plane slow and to decend... seems I get it down to 100 kts, then I have
to put the nose down to get down... in a few seconds I am at 120 kts
again... Overall very nice and fast plane, overall better esperience and
more work then I had expected.

Jeff

Gizzy,

Thanks. I got the info. It looks more like a "rental" arrangement than
a club though. I belong to a non-profit club where all members own
shares of the aircraft. The "non-profit" arrangement keeps the rates
low.

--Dan


Gizzy wrote:
BTW its not a cheap club to join, not expensive, just not cheap either. Plus
you need 20 hours dual in the SR22 before you can solo
But that plane is worth it.

Jeff

Dan wrote:

What is the name of this club? I haven't heard of it before...

--Dan

Gizzy wrote:
I used to post on here as turboarrow, sold my plane about a year or so
ago and did some multi engine training in a sececa II, well, today I
just joined a Cirrus flight club here in the Phoenix Az area (FFZ) and
took my first flight... gotta tell you, thats one hell of a plane!!!

Fast and very slick.... most of flyign it is pretty easy, no issues...
my main issue is landing... landing is plane is easy... its getting the
plane slow and to decend... seems I get it down to 100 kts, then I have
to put the nose down to get down... in a few seconds I am at 120 kts
again... Overall very nice and fast plane, overall better esperience and
more work then I had expected.

Jeff

Seems like the other clubs I h ave looked at, they charge a monthly membership
fee, which goes towards the airplane, then an hourly fee for using the plane, the
membership for the 22 is limited at 10 or 15 people, forgot which.

in the ones where you own shares of the airplane I have looked at, you usually
have to put down a large amount of money, say, 4 owners on the club, each person
has to put in 1/4 of the price of the plane, if you want out, you have to sell
your share of the plane. I know there are several ways to have a flight club.
But with a $400k + airplane, its hard to keep the rates real low.


Dan wrote:

Gizzy,

Thanks. I got the info. It looks more like a "rental" arrangement than
a club though. I belong to a non-profit club where all members own
shares of the aircraft. The "non-profit" arrangement keeps the rates
low.

--Dan