Discovering the Cirrus SR22T for the first time

to deploy the parachute actually you just reach up to this red handle and pull straight down [Music] lovely Ivy hello and she's going to show me all around this fantastic Cirrus SR22T GTS well I am thrilled to show you around Rachel um we're going to start with the I think thing that Cirrus is most known for which is the plan with the parachute this is what I'm most excited about every single series that comes out of uh out of our facility in Duluth Minnesota via a piston or a jet and was designed around the idea of the airplane having a parachute so all of the parts for the SR series airplanes are made in Grand Forks North Dakota all the composite work is done there and when they actually lay all the closet in they start building the parachute into the plane so the parachute straps are actually built right into the fuselage string into the fuselage skin and they come right down underneath the door and attach on either side of the engine this is where the baggage compartment is and when the fuselage kind of the fuselage Parts come to Duluth uh they come in two halves and then get bonded together at the very top when they get bonded together there's a window and also a second hole back here that's actually for where the parachute comes out it's amazing you'd never know it was that you never know it's very hidden um so the baggage compartment is here right behind the baggage compartment there's a bucket and that's where the actual parachute lives the parachute bundle and inside the bucket at the top there's a there's a rocket so when you pull the handle on the inside of the cabin to deploy the parachute the rocket fires and blows this like cosmetic cover off and pulls out the parachute and all of the lines and once that parachute and all the lines kind of gets straightened out these straps are pulled out of the very edge of the skin of the fuselage and the parachute deploys the the airplane basically is flat underneath three attachment points two in the front one in the back um and what else is there to point out on the outside of the aircraft before we get in the cockpit this airplane is certified for flight into known icing conditions so you'll see these titanium panels here oh yeah um you've got panels on the horizontal stabilizer the vertical stabilizer and the Leading Edge of the wing and there's tiny little laser drilled holes in the very front of all of these panels they're very very tight basically when you turn the switch on the fluid weeps out the front and coats the entire control surface um so it will shed ice and also prevent ice from from building up so you can really fly in a lot of different kinds of weather weather is not really going to be an issue for you is it one way or another um yeah most weather it's not an all-weather airplane it's a most weather airplane okay so welcome thank you I've never been in a series before so this is a really no one experience for me well I'm excited to uh to show you everything so um I'm gonna basically sort of start um kind of down here at the beginning and we'll work our way up and then I'll kind of move into the avionics so basically what we're sitting in is a nsr22t which is the turbocharged version of the SR series and it goes up to 25 000 feet and goes at about 200 knots or so um has a range of about 900 nautical miles um and uh we can fit five five people in here generally soon um generally four plus one I guess um and obviously we've got a nice technologically advanced glass cockpit um digital backup gauge here on a pretty streamlined interface for the pilot to uh to interact with the Avionics so starting kind of from down here you've got a console where you would plug in your headsets and this shows you how many hours are on the other thing um the fuel tank you can either pull from the left tank or the right tank and this is where you select your fill tank this is your single number of power control so um you've got a constant speed prop but no prop control um because that's all interlinked into a mechanism in this palette lover so the power lever actually controls the power and the prop and then you've got your mixture here fuel pump um you're gonna you know use the fuel pump on taxi to take off landing and when you're switching fuel Banks um the SR22 TV comes with a built-in oxygen system and so the manifold for the oxygen is up here the sprayed plug in your tubes and they oh the fighter pilot mask um and uh you just switch the oxygen on from here and then this is your flash um foreign your audio panels here um you've got a couple of dual Channel um audio panels so you've got com1 and calm too where you can talk on one column and listen on the other um this is also where you control what all of the all the occupants in your claim here um so you can make the audio panel or set up the audio panel such that you're here ATC and no one else in here it's hard to isolate yeah exactly or everyone can listen to um whatever music you've got Bluetooth to the avionics but the pilot doesn't have to listen to that so they can focus on flying um or you know if you've got passengers in the back who want to listen to something else you can kind of uh divide the kind of a sec so again you can plug your phone in and listen to music yep you can just Bluetooth your phone no wires necessary we are yeah fantastic it's nice uh this is the auto Violet and so this is how you set up basically um your autopilot which is a digital three access digital autopilot it can fly um uh basically climb and capture an altitude fly a flight plan flying approach down to about 200 feet does all the hard work so it really does yeah it makes it easy and then this is uh sort of your interface to all the AV outings so everything that you can you would want to do with your avionics in terms of setup um you can do here uh moving up to the actual screens and you've got your primary flight display here on the left and your multi functional display on the right so your primary flight display that's going to show you all of the critical information that you need to fly so your air speed your attitude your altitude your vertical speed what direction you're going and then the pilot can configure this PFD to show a lot of information or be decluttered and show just the required immunization so I can show a map um traffic inset here I can show my nearest airport page I can put a map inside that HSI I can put traffic inside that HSI I can turn everything off so I can really kind of configure this and tailor it to how I like to um to receive information some people like to see a lot of stuff and some people just like it was you know so really super I mean to kind of configure I really love how this instrument panel is angled so that you can see this there's a soil pointing towards you it's sort of like very pilot I really want to make sure the file it feels like they can see everything like it's built for them um and they have great spatial awareness and situational awareness of what's going on and moving over to the MFD you've got this is your engine information and that is up all the time so you're critical and for engine information things like your RPM your manifold pressure how much fuel you've got what your oil temperature and pressure is um all of your exhaust gas temperatures and things like that out there all the time if you want to look at this panel in more detail I just press the engine page and that gives me a much bigger view about everything that's going on now this page this is really sort of where all of your fun useful information is and this is again all controlled down here and I'm by our controller and this big knob I can scroll through and look at on the different different chapters in different pages way so here's my map page I can range out I see I can range right in there's the airport even further and basically things are labeled I can see the taxiways I can see the runway when I actually load a flight plan I can see what direction I should be going on the runway again it's all about making sure the pilot has the most information so they don't get in trouble so well is it kind of um talking to a weather station um so would it tell you which Runway you need to take or present it doesn't tell you which Runway but it tells you information about the weather so you can have the items yeah exactly um so uh as the pilot you have to decide yeah well at a towered field they're going to tell you which Runway they're using but um yes correct we are just buying the air shipping area that's a lot of detail isn't it yeah and then as you scroll out you can kind of see the detail Fades away and it you know shows you a little bit more this is my abs camera so that's fun and this is an infrared camera it sits right below uh the left wing right I can turn that on and play it it sees um basically instead of people's legs yeah uh you can actually see cloud formation so if you're flying at night you can avoid the clouds so far it's incredible yeah it's really cool and then I can actually kind of split screen that um so I can overlay it with the map wow I've never seen that yeah it's pretty neat um and then all of my um this is where I would get information about my databases making sure that my aeronautical information and database information is Upstate not expired and then all of our checklists are in here and that's something that we haven't quite talked about so um I just hit the checkbook checklist button all my checklists are digital so uh should we be ready uh we started the engine I'm ready for takeoff we're gonna go to the before takeoff checklist oh so can you can actually tick them off as you go along yep exactly we've got our cruise checklist in here basically Oliver juggles and then um all of your performance day dancing here as well so if you want to double check Landing distance uh all your charts are in there as well and then um all of your emergency things you need rain so you've got your emergency checklist your abnormal muscle so that's all in there pretty quick and they said uh so on the subject What emergencies yes let's say we're in an emergency yep and we've decided we're going to need to deploy our parachute yep how do we do that um so this is the parachute to climate um checklist so it's very easy um it's it's always basically sheer so before I go for a flight I actually take the this pin out um it's uh secured for trade show purposes you know um but before every flight I would take the safety pin out once I take that so I did pin out the parachutes actually armed um to deploy the parachute actually you just reach up to this red handle and pull straight down it's about 35 or 40 pounds of pressure so you just do a little pull-on run on that handle um and uh you'll hear a huge bang the rocket will punch out the cover in the cups Capsule that's kind of behind the bag which compartment it pulls out all of the parachute and the lines and it takes you know six or seven seconds for it to be fully deployed under canopy wow I know we um as Pilots or passengers brace in the brace position or um or do you just sit comfortably and really you just like snug up your your uh your seat belt and get ready to go pee um the seat cushions are actually like if you kind of Wiggle around a little bit it sounds like you're on like a little bit of tin foil kind of um that's actually a four inch Crush cork um it's um it's like a honeycomb aluminum core in the seat and that's meant to take actually 26 G's of force wow um so that's there to protect your back and protect your neck um so really it's just kind of sit back relax and enjoy your flight yeah gosh well that's uh that's much better than trying to find a field and do an approach into it yeah absolutely so really what you'd want to do is get the planes slowed down and what I basically tell people is red red um so you want to take the mixture and the power pull these levers all the way back yeah reach up pull the handle shut off the fuel yeah well suppressive stuff we've spent a lot of time not only figuring out how to make the plane you know faster higher carry more do all those sort of things like look good on a spreadsheet um but also Focus inward on cabin um kind of convenience and comfort anything like that so you'll see um and they soft leather and like big windows and things like that the other thing uh he's making the cabin occuments comfortable temperature loose right so if it's super hot it's miserable to be in an airplane yeah it it actually is very fatiguing to be in that type of environment so like you might not be on your game from a safety perspective so there's air conditioning there's three levels of fan oh wow that was effective oh yeah there's three different levels of fan you can get airflow on the ground um and then uh it's a very easy controller so even the passenger you don't have to be a rocket scientist to clear this out and of course another big difference which I'm not used to is having a side stick does that take some getting used to uh it takes about 600 feet literally yes uh it's quite funny because that's something that a lot of people point out again part of the reason why the side stick was designed into the airplane was to give a little bit more Comfort a little bit more kind of real estate for the occupants here and also in the event that there is some sort of incident or accident um and you end up sort of running into something um you know this is going to come alongside of you but into you so not to be ground mix you know Thermo as well and just kind of from the safety perspective like take as much away from anything that can that can hit you yeah um in the in the critical Zone um but if you think about flying with a traditional yoke typically you'd have one hand on this rattle anyway yeah so you're really only gonna have one hand on the anyway most of the time you're not driving like a car right um your one hand is doing some something else whether that's interacting with the avionics or controlling the power or whatever your other hand's doing you're usually only flying with one hand and if you if you have your hand on the armrest and just kind of naturally your hand lays right where right where the yoke is it's amazing and I see you go down up and that's right on hand so we've got um elevator and ailer on Trend yeah um to kind of dial in the the playing exactly how you like it for trim got your push to talk button you've got your autopilot disconnect button and then the indication of the chain is right here let's think and it's just every detail this lovely soft suede we try to make sure that all the areas that the pilot touches um are are nice to touch and all of the areas in the cloud seas are nice to see so like this area super super critical we pay a ton of attention until it's very big details in small details so um you know seams video of the of the panels stitching in the panel that sort of thing and then if you notice like the handles that you have are also sweet of their Alcantara um the yolk is Alcantara this is a nice soft leather on the on the throttle so um it's it's a bit of a mixture of you want these areas to be resistant to wear but also feel nice damage or and it certainly does I mean it's like a kind of top of the range new car it's just so comfortable you can just just relax and you've got it basically Glides itself um there's tons of Automation in here and that's really built in from a reduction of pilot workload standpoint and a safety same way because if your workload is reduced during the cruise part of this flight you're putting forth less effort to make that cruise part of the flight happen so you have more mental acuity and um a sort of a awareness and you're less petite when you get to the critical phase of flight which is your influence absolutely yeah enough well anything that can lighten your workload and give you more mental capacity to deal with whether it's routine the routine stuff or an emergency I mean the more we can do that the better yes absolutely um and it's just a nice place to eat yeah um the view is gorgeous from here when you're up there we're gonna have to fly together I would love that so much I would love love to see you put it through its Paces oh it's so fun like it's so fun to find and this is such a lovely area to fly over as well yeah where'd he sign in from um I don't actually know where this one flew in because I didn't fly it in but um I've been fortunate to fly um kind of all over uh England and Scotland and man and does some flying over in Gurnee Italy around France a little bit so yeah fantastic I mean what a treat to be able to find random one of these it's it's amazing yeah it's a lot of fun I I have the best job in the world well thank you very much for for the introduction to this incredible machine of course we've only scratched the surface so let's go flying we'll do a part two at some point yes that'd be perfect part two from the air yeah absolutely thank you very much yeah you're welcome [Music]

Channel: FLYER

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Keywords: General Aviation, Flying, Aircraft, Aeroplanes, Cessna, Piper, Cirrus, Mooney, GA, Flyer Magazine, Beechcraft, Cirrus SR22T

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Length: 18min 29sec (1109 seconds)

Published: Wed May 10 2023