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Old 08-26-2010, 02:08 AM
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I checked out in our SR22 in 5 hours with a CSIP (insurance requirement), and hadn't flown a SE piston in nearly 2 years...though I was a professional pilot. When we had Avidyne R9 installed this past winter, it took me about 5 hours to become fully up to speed on it, though I was safe and capable of operating the airplane before bringing it home from the shop.

There's absolutely nothing special about flying a Cirrus, other than perhaps its less forgiving than other airframes about being too fast on final (reflected in the number of runway overruns it has).

And yeah, it does stall pretty benignly too...moreso than your average Cessna 150 IMO.
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