Okay deep breath got to be brave got to be brave I can do this
hey hey TDS how are you. Hi. You know how we've been hanging out a lot together
you know how we had those brilliant adventures. Flying up too Longreach, dodging
thunderstorms. Well something's something's come up and then I need to
tell you something. I've kind of met another plane.
So this is the new ride, this is Kilo Juliet November the Cirrus sr22 g3 model
it's a really slick aircraft actually like not just with all the power in the
engine and everything but it's got air conditioning inside digital autopilot.
But the nice thing the thing that I really like is the interior the avionics
is almost identical to what we had in Tango Delta Sierra and I'll show you
that in a second but it's a great plane and one other big difference is
something on the front of the plane which you can't see from here so I'll
show you now because. Whereas Tango Delta Sierra had three prop blades...
...Kilo Juliet November has four. Which give you some added benefits with things like
climb rate etc. But the thing I'm looking forward to is apparently as well this
makes it a lot quieter in the cockpit with these four blades. These are
composite props made out of a composite material so they're a lot lighter now
there are probably many other aerodynamic benefits of having four prop
blades than having three which a lot of you guys out there who are way more into
the aerodynamic side of things than I am will know so I'm not even gonna attempt.
Maybe let me know in the comments below you your preferences on a three or a
four blade prop. All that I know is this is supposed to be really smooth in
flight and a lot quieter as well it's going to make a lot less noise and give that
almost that kind of whistling sound as it's going round rather than the
thumping sound you sometimes get from other props. So really looking forward to
trying this. One other difference which isn't as noticeable in flight it's just
a preflight item is the oil in the SR22 in this one is slightly different. This
actually takes 12 quarts of oil so you're looking for about 10 quarts of
oil here before you take off in the pre-flight. But that's just... oil's
not very interesting I just wanted to point out the differences like between
the SR20 and SR22, oil is not very exciting. It's very important though.
Now inside the cockpit pretty much everything's laid out in almost the same
way to what we're used to in Tango Delta Sierra. So got the two main flight
display screens the primary flight display the multifunction display here.
These are your master switches, batteries these are your lights for the
aircraft that you can turn on and off here.
Backup gauges and then down here one slight difference. This is the
autopilot we'll play a bit with this on the flight today but this is a digital
autopilot rather than the analog S-Tec 55 it was called in Tango Delta
Sierra. These are GPS units this is the transponder and this is my
communications panel. The rest of the bits there pretty much exactly the same.
I know I've said it before but I really do mean it. It's really useful in a
Cirrus if you're a Cirrus pilot that everything's pretty much in the same
place regardless of which plane you go into. So jumping from one plane to
another is actually really straightforward. I feel very comfortable
despite the fact that this is basically the first time I've ever sat in this aircraft.
The seats so fancy as well look at this fancy seat. And as well you know what
this is in the strap? This is the airbag so it actually has airbags built into the
seatbelts another really cool safety feature.
They got a thousand foot right of climb and you're hitting the fence at 100 knots.
That's 600 already so flaps, caps is available, landing light
off, fuel pump off. Wow bloody hell, this is a significantly different plane. I couldn't believe we got to 600 feet already there.
Let's see what happens if we get to a stall situation. Ok with the autopilot on
It won't actually allow us to stall. Ok. Watch what
happens here. So airspeed's decreasing I bring it back to idle just feel the
thing it just slows. Yeah you can feel yourself decelerating there.
You'll notice that the ball's gone way out to the left. And then it's got speed protection
see that, underspeed. So it's look at that it's throwing the flight
director is throw the aircraft down. So it's pitching down for us. Yep. Wow,
that's cool. Okay and you get the under
speed up here as well. Yep. And I've become incapacitated,
and the plane starts going out of control but passenger all my passenger
has to do is just lean over and press straight and leve.
Good work Cirrus. Yeah that's very good isn't it?
Yeah very steep very very steep on that one so I'll try to get our height better
this time. She loves to go doesn't she? Oh man.
Yeah wants to take off. I'm really loving the power actually gives you a lot more
confidence to be honest.
Latrobe Valley traffic, Kilo Juliet November turning base runway two one Latrobe Valley.
Latrobe Valley Traffic, Tango, uh, Kilo Juliet November turning final runway two one, Latrobe Valley.
Tsk, Tango Delta Sierra!
All right everything shut down keys are out, caps pin back in so what do we
think what's the verdict between the SR20 Tango Delta Sierra and
the SR22 Kilo Juliet November? First thing that I will say Kilo Juliet
November, way harder to say than Tango Delta Sierra. Kilo Juliet November.
Tango Delta Sierra well just seven so one more syllable. Seems like a small thing but
anyway I'm gonna have to get used to saying Kilo Juliet November instead of
Tango... What do I think of this aircraft compared to Tango Delta Sierra? Well
before I answer that I just have to say you know I love Tango Delta Sierra and
it is an amazing aircraft and anyone who's thinking of getting into Cirrus
flying down here at Moorabbin that is probably the perfect aircraft for you to
get into and start flying to be honest. I'll be totally honest with you I've
wanted this story to have a bit of a cliffhanger ending almost you know.
Will he upgrade? Won't he upgrade? What's gonna happen next? But I'm gonna be honest
with you, I'm gonna this is gonna be the plane that we're gonna be flying from
here on this SR22 this specific one because of all the reasons that I've
mentioned before. I love TDS I'm sorry not to fly it any more. I'm sure I'll still
fly TDS in the future as well it's really good just for local flights you
know scenic flights around Melbourne with friends. I'll probably still take it
out for that but anytime that you guys are gonna come with me on longer trips
around Australia and who knows maybe even further afar, I think we've got to
start getting used to this plane guys.