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Originally Posted by SpyderMike
Sorry Eric, but using a Google search result as fact or evidence does not do it for me. I try to look at real factual evidence. Your statement of a lot of low time pilots with money sounds a bit biased too; not really based on fact. There is negative stigma, it seems, to some who don't take that extra time to get beyond the Google auto complete or to look at actual safety data that is available. I have heard it before from the Beech, Cessna and Piper owners forums...nothing new there. I guess many still take the time though to weed through the BS, as Cirrus is still the number one seller I believe for that type. Not the plane for everyone I understand...either for the cost or mismatch in mission profile.
The Cirrus isn't a hand full or a hot airplane...it just isn't. It is a numbers plane like most are. It is a well engineered, comfortable, efficient and safe traveling machine; one that has served me well for my mission (and many many others as well - take a gander at the fleet utilization numbers).
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Not sure you are understanding what he is trying to say. It would be no different than a newer pilot flying a Bonanza or 182T or something like that. The fact that it was a Cirrus isn't the point. The point is, she was a low time pilot in a high performance airplane which has less room for error. The original doctor killer name was handed out to the early V-Tail Bonanzas for that very reason. Pilots with a lot of money, (doctors) could afford to buy these high performance machines but were not proficient in flying them so there were many accidents. Same point trying to be made here. This person apparently had some money, as we know these planes are not cheap, and was in over her head. If she would have been in a 172 or Warrior etc., there might have been a different outcome.