You are a VERY rare case!

 

I'd love to attend CSIP training, but DANG, is it EXPENSIVE! The flight school that I worked for (now defunct, bankrupt, and hopefully will not come back) had us flying the SR 20s and 22s (we were not CSIPs) with Chinese students at the stick. We were having most of them solo around 40 hours or so because of a wide variety of problems they had. I'd much rather have students learn how to get the basic flight skills and their private pilot license in something that is a ton more docile than a Cirrus. For most beginning students, it is way too much aircraft for them to handle and way to unforgiving (think tail strikes on landings). I think a better plane for beginners to fly (and much more cheaper) would be a ol Cessna 172 or Piper Warrior. No fancy avionics, standard 6 pack, simple systems that most students should be able to handle without much trouble. After the students get their private pilot license, then step up to the Cirrus for instrument training or advanced training. That's just my .02 cents before the fall of the rest of the economny or whichever way it is heading!

 

^^I agree 100% on that. People are too sucked in by technology, they forget they need to learn the basics first.

 

840ish hours of dual given in Cirrus (Cirri?) later (All primary, instrument, and Commercial students, no transitions or checkouts), and I'll add that it's stall characteristics are not nearly as bad as the rumors. The Cirrus is a great airplane, especially the original Avidyne Integra model. Have also flown the Perspective (once), and the Avidyne Revision 9 (Checked out in it, a few hours) and neither of them were as intuitive.

 

Never flown Perspective but we replaced the original Entegra 2 with R9 Platinum this past winter and I found the transition (once I figured out what frigging submenu I needed for what I wanted to see) to be very fast - had no flight instruction and just 20 minutes on ground power and was up doing practice approaches with it.

 

B-b-b-b-b-b-b-but without Cirrus approved instruction from a Cirrus approved CFI?

You're dangerous.

-mini

 

That's right, Ice...Man. I am dangerous.

<sorry, but you can't lay off ones soft-tossed over the plate>

 

Careful, you don't want to be flying rubber dog ____ from Hong Kong in that thing!

 

I'm so proud of you.

-mini

 

What's so bad about the stalls? Neither I, nor any of my students have had a problem with them, in fact I find it to be more docile than a 172.
As for the parachute, from what I've been told it was going to be added anyways so they had it also certified as the Spin recovery rather than spending extra money to do additional spin training.