Now don't Tell tango Delta Sierra this but today I'm gonna get in another plane
I'm really sorry TDS you know I love you you know I just I don't mean it I just I
think we should see other planes.
Ever since I've been putting videos on this
channel so many people have been asking the same question which is where did I
do my Cirrus certification and who did I do my transition training with. This is
Mike Walden this is the guy who taught me everything I know about the Cirrus
SR22 Tango Delta Sierra that we've been flying too Longreach and back. What Mike
doesn't know about the Cirrus probably isn't worth knowing. Mike's been
encouraging me to look at the sr22 as a potential upgrade to the sr20 and why
should someone like me who's on an SR20 maybe think about upgrading? Without a
doubt the performance is much better going from a 200 horse aircraft to a 310 horse
aircraft if you go turbo but they're just a really really nice cruising aircraft
much better than I would say for a lot of other brands. Coming back from Uluru
to Moorabbin in one day it was not labor intensive at all it was a really relaxed
trip. To get out there hop into an sr-22 enjoy these the additional power you
know you're getting somewhere faster it's got much better range on it you
know that's the whole idea. Now we're about to hop into an sr22 a turbo first
time I've sat in a turbo aircraft we're going to be looking at the Cirrus
perspective plus Cirrus perspective sorry the Cirrus perspective system
which is a bit of an upgrade from the Avidyne which we've been used to flying
in Tango Delta Sierra so if you're ready Mike. Sounds like a very good idea.
If we start it up it didn't start with the current GPS position we are out of
site of the satellites at the moment because the weather is absolutely nasty out there
So we've got no GPS position but just going through you can
see here that we do have terrain information and it actually gives us a
color chart here to give us an indication to how far we are
in relation to that and it tells us this is our maximum elevation is for
here would indicate the hills around this snowy's
And then our minimum is 26 which is where we are at the moment
So that's based on the range that's the place that's based on where we are at the moment.
You can see there as I start heading out towards Canberra I'm
starting to hit the 6,400 area so that so now I've gone to 7,200 feet and
that's about as high as it gets. Okay which should be the track between
here and Canberra it's that's top of Kosciuszko.
The autopilot is a really really useful autopilot in that it's digital and it's
laid out beautifully so it's a GFC 700 which has your heading your nav so
you don't have to press double nav to get GPS steering is just simply NAV. You
have the autopilot on of course never forget that and you have the magic
blue level button which is wonderful for saving lives, yeah it is a magical
button you know I've had the aircraft basically on its side pressed the level
button and it'll bring it out. Now we have approach mode so which we
can use for our ILSs or anything that has has a glide path like an RNAV+V.
We have a thumbwheel so we can put things up and down I can actually turn
the flight director back on and using the wheel I can actually move that up and
down. The way the flight directors work is there a loving couple that is to say
that they love spooning so you'll see the yellow the yellow chevron will
always spoon to the magenta chevron very loving. So that's our flight director now
we have our indicated airspeed climb now that what that does is that sets an
airspeed for the aircraft to climb at so basically in a normally aspirated
aircraft you're you'll find that your rate of climb will start diminishing as
you get closer to your ceiling. Now let's say 10,000 feet but with this one it
will actually hold that particular power and a ground speed right through to
25,000 feet. We have vertical speed for descent or alternatively we have VNAV
for descent. Either of these two will work the VNAV is an automated thing
the vertical speed is a manual thing. Okay that is to say you would use that
if you wanted to descend straight away if using VNAV it will wait you will
actually level until you get to the top of descent then it'll actually
start it's descent. Then of course we have the altitude hold button
yeah So let's say I'm putting in 2500 I don't have to touch that
button all I have to do is simply just set a good climb speed yeah and it will
stop at 2500 feet. We can change our comms here but I tend
not to do that because we don't want to break these knobs. I tend to use the GCU.
So that's our control unit press COM there
and that will activate the COM and that I can put in whatever frequency I want to
put in
and then it's just a standard COM unit down here. A standard COM unit so
the same as Tango Delta Sierra then? Yep. Primary flight display you can have your
synthetic vision which has everything on it won't get anything because we're not
outside who wants to be outside at the moment? Defaults wind indicator again you
have option one and option two. Bearing indicators so you can have
whatever there and you want to know HSI so we can go to an arc
or you can go to 360. Also in there we have our altitude unit so we've got one
zero one five so we've got hectopascals if we want we can press meters and it'll give
us our meters up there to keep in mind. We have standard baro which we have
for going above our transition altitude of 10,000 feet we'll be kicking the
standard baro and we can do that and then come up with standard baro. We
could also do that through here your press and you've got standard baro as
well. Transponder I find that the transponder is much easier to do from
over here if you go transponder and we go 3,000 it's actually showing up on
the transponder. Now if you go transponder VFR it'll flick into 1200
and if we go transponder VFR again it'll jump back to what it was. Next thing we have
is the timer reference page and this is really useful because you can actually
start the timer so this is your stopwatch cycle tostart and that'll
give you a count up and using this button here first stop again there you
go and then press reset. Now the other thing that it has in there also just
selected in the flight management system knobs on the PFD is I can go down and I
can turn these speeds on or off. So all these speeds are on but I can
show those off so they don't appear on the speed tape. Now the important thing
if I'm doing an approach I will put in the minimums the other thing that's
really useful is just having a minimums for VFR quite often if we're only doing
VFR I'll turn around and say I want you to do a 300 point of no return on the
circuits for example so at Moorabbin I'd say 300 above ground so we're going to
make a 350 so just put in 350 there and what that would do is actually give us a
an announcement at 350 to say minimum. So that would be my check to go
are we clear to land, if we are if we're not we're doing a missed approach.
That's really useful, and that will announce minimums. Yeah, it will just say minimums.
If people are doing night flights, these are your night illumination potentiometers. So turning those up
will introduce lights so if you find these screens are dull the first thing
you must do is just to make sure there all turned on. Okay now if for some reason
this screen failed what we can do is we can press the red reversionary
button and what that will do so let's say imagine that's now completely off
what it does is it brings your attitude your HSI all the key ingredients for a
successful flight across to here with your in set or your engine parameters in
here. But if you go if you want to find out what else is going on you go engine
and then you go system and it'll tell you all your information
as well. And the difference between the Avidyne and the Perspective is they went
from they introduced more redundancy by simply putting in the extra bus so you
have main bus one main bus two and essential as opposed to the Avidyne.
How can we see that easiest way to see that is we've actually got m1 m2
and essential. Just having a look at the oxygen system it's just simple okay
turning it on there it is lit up that will start winding down it's telling us
is got 1,290 the same to turn that off will just simply just turn it off.
And so the ports are up here so you've got one two three four ports there.
I love birds chirping in the hangar because it just reminds me that I
shouldn't be flying today. It's always that they know something that you know
Yes absolutely. So if I find that I got bad weather
I can go flight plan and I can go menu and I can go parallel track. So let's say
there's a dirty great big thunderstorm in front of me so now I can change that
to let's say 15 miles and I want to go 15 miles left of track So I go left 15
miles activate parallel track and now
everything here has a 'p'. Then I come out of flight plan
you will actually see there's my track offset 15 miles. Then I could come in
here and just zigzag around. That's great so you've got your own kind of roads
your own path where you can fly through which would have been really useful when
I was coming back to Mangalore and I had to a left and a right diversion they gave
me I think 10 miles either side. I used this coming back from orange where we went 55
miles right of track. 55 miles? Big storm! That's from here to Ballarat, that was a very big diversion!
Okay well that was really useful actually but now it leaves me with a
huge question which is do I upgrade? Tell me what you think it'll be interesting
to get your thoughts on whether I should upgrade to the SR22 or whether I can
stick with the SR20 I think obviously we need to be looking at things like well
what am I using the SR22 for. But the thought of being able to go higher and
further and faster is appealing because as you know I love to travel with flying.
The new SR20 the g6 version of the SR20 is coming to Australia as well
I think there's only one in the country right now but there are more coming
that's got a 215 horsepower lycoming engine I believe, will have the same
perspective plus system not the perspective we were looking at it but the new one
the Cirrus perspective plus system. Tell me what you think about the upgrade your
thoughts on the cirrus SR20 versus the SR22 Avidyne versus the Cirrus Perspective
what would you do in this situation?