Oh My Cirrus!

Due to my school selling our fleet of Cessna Aircraft, and my being on a waiting list to fly the Piper Seneca I have begun the Cirrus transition course. actually due to my lag time in posting, I have nearly completed the Cirrus transition. The cirrus is an amazing airplane. The aircraft is completely reliant on electrical power, but has all of the information you could ever want at your fingertips. Also the Cirrus is the most stable aircraft I have ever flown. The glass cockpit is a little difficult to get used to for someone having only flown the old steam gauges, but within a couple of flights I was whipping through a it's advanced avionics. One thing to remember about this airplane is that it flies like a twin. The Cirrus is fast, a little heavy, extremely stable, and demands almost no flare on landing. Due to the design the Cirrus is extremely easy to tail strike. Also an improperly maneuvered Cirrus will have a tenancy to porpoise. Once you get the sight picture down landing this aircraft becomes a non issue. Also something worth noting is that with the NASA designed wing as far as I am concerned this aircraft has no stall. Practicing a power off stall was the more dramatic example of this. With power to idle full flaps and the nose to the ski the aircraft would NOT stall. We eventually gave up and pretended we got the stall and "Recovered". This is an incredible airplane, and I look forward to flying it in the future.