Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
The big issue with the Cirrus, IMO, is the lack of experience of pilots with regards to energy management. The airplane would do EXACTLY what you wanted it to do, including steep/short/short field approaches, if you managed energy correctly. Too many pilots get cavalier with speed and rudder control, going too fast in landing and too slow while maneuvering in the pattern and failing to keep the "brick" centered.
The pilots that auger in with Cirruses are very often high time "experienced" pilots. Many are CFIs. But yes, it will continue to happen as long as people ignore the properties of the plane and think they can treat it like a Cessna.
Steve Wilson Blog - The Cirrus Airplane Has Serious Problems
If something has reduced margin for error, I would not do it unnecessarily. If you have a video of doing a SR20 or SR22 short approach I'd love to see it (seriously -- it was such a slick aircraft even when I was keeping speed up for spacing it was hard to lose it on final).
Your post is a little contradictory, I'm saying that coming in high speed / high sink on approach would be a worse thing, e.g. deliberately going "too fast" and expecting to be able to shake it off at 200 ft AGL. You can't, but in a dirty cessna with 40 degree flaps you can.
If something requires more precise energy control, the ways of getting and maintaining that control or precision limit the flight profiles of the aircraft. That's physics, not an opinion.
The SR20 is designed as a high-wing loading transport aircraft and I would feel less comfortable hot-dogging with somewhat high wing loading around the patch than I would with a citabria, cessna, piper, or a lot of lighter loading GA planes. Yes, it can be flown well and safely for "fun" but that is not what it is designed to do, nor best at.
YMMV.