ememic99 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:30 pm

TimS wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:56 pm Note: I am a COPA member, and former Cirrus owner (both an SR20 and SR22).

Out of curiosity, do you still own N1446C?

No, sold my piece of the partnership last summer. We were planning to leave the area, but that fell through. My partners are great guys, and found someone to buy me out.

Tim

@alanhawse The data shows exactly opposite what you are arguing on Cirrus. When you compare Cirrus SR22 accident and fatal rates against equivalent planes, e.g. DA-42, Bonanza... You will find that Cirrus is has lower rates or is extremely close to the point it is a statistical tie. The DA-40-180 is...

I doubt it will pencil out. I did it before with an SR20, the break even for the additional costs (insurance, MX...) was around 100 hours a year; and I managed to lease it out only 150 hours a year. So it did reduce my costs some. Downside, I was flying 150 hours a year, if there are two of you now,...

There is an old and trite phrase which applies to manufacturing in China. You get what you pay for. As Dave alluded too, if you are willing to pay like Apple is, you can get very high quality stuff out of China. You can also get junk, like the all the one wheel devices sold on Amazon that were catch...

On the flip side. I was a partner in an SR22 for over three years before I sold my stake because I was planning to leave the area (did not, and should have kept the plane). It worked extremely well. Our schedules synced very well. My two partners were both mechanically inclined and alternated doing ...

Chris, Good point on the mountain flying course. I did an online one which covered the basics, and made the simple decision to follow roads, and fly VFR only. Sure I miss out on some things, and do not use the plane to its ultimate capabilities, but I am just not in the larger mountains enough to no...

Like others, I agree. Get the IFR, and start in a used DA-40 if you want a Dimond. This will get you the ownership experience, along with the starting to learn weather ADM which will be critical in your long term safety. I live in New England now, and have flown a N/A SR22 around the Rockies multipl...

That will teach me to read the specs instead of the regs.

Tim

ADS-B transponders actively transmit their 1090ES packets once per second without being interrogated. This is also true of the 978UAT devices. This so that the traffic detection can fully operate in remote areas where there are neither radar facilities nor ADS-B towers. Rich, You sure? I looked for...

To clarify. The GTX345R broadcasts on 1090 with Extended Squitter (ES). The ES effectively means the GTX345R is including the position and ADS-B data in the 1090 Mode-C broadcast message. Other planes are very likely doing the same. In addition, the GTX345R receives both the 1090 and 978 UAT signals...