#CIRRUS SR22 GTS interior full

It’s a welcome improvement, especially since the added fuel, and, hence, range, comes without a resultant decrease in full fuel payload. The wingspan is the same, but the new wing features a longer internal spar, so it can have shorter tips, which freed up room internally for more fuel, an additional 11 gallons. This greatly enhances the feel of the airplane, giving it much more pleasing flying qualities. It’s almost identical in shape and span to the one on previous models, but it has a lot more dihedral, which added enough stability that Cirrus was able to eliminate the rudder/aileron interconnect. Mostly that’s because of an all-new wing. In terms of handling, however, they never felt great, until now.

That’s because they’re roomy, comfortable, well equipped and fast. I’ve got a few hundred hours in SR22s at this point, and I’ve always enjoyed flying the airplane. There are, according to Cirrus-I didn’t count them-more than 700 individual changes to the airplane.Īnd, unlike any of the previous upgrades to the SR22, the G3 boasts substantial aerodynamic changes. The system will be electric, with the condenser and battery situated toward the back of the airplane in order to help keep the CG aft and give better elevator control.

It was expected to be available sometime this fall. At press time Cirrus was still working on the installation and the certification. The airplane we flew for this report, however, didn’t have A/C. For pilots who are based in hot places, deciding between turbocharging and air conditioning was a bit of a devil’s bargain. One big reason for this is that with the G3, the turbocharged airplane will also be available with air conditioning, which was not the case with the G2 turbo. A normally aspirated G3 will still be available, but we’d guess it will sell in much smaller numbers than the turbocharged version. Over the past four decades just about every new, turbocharged version of a good normally aspirated airplane immediately began outselling the original, usually by a wide margin.Īnd so it has been with the SR22, first with the G2 and now with the G3. As soon as Cirrus introduced the turbocharged G2 version last summer, it started getting orders for the model in much greater numbers than it expected. While Reid might be getting that question for a while longer, it probably won’t be more than a few months before controllers everywhere are used to sending SR22s to the flight levels.

CIRRUS SR22 GTS interior