His plane is a 2005 SR22 Turbo, upgraded to Avidyne R9 avionics and freshened up with a gorgeous paint job.
Overall, I was pleased with the flight. I had not flown a Cirrus since September of 2010, so I was very rusty on the "buttonology" - not surprising since I've never flown behind the R9 suite. So I was always quite a bit behind on which button to push when, and kind of overwhelmed by the amount of data presented on the two screens:
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Realistically, I think it would take me 5 or 6 hours of instruction on the avionics to get comfortable enough to solo, even VFR. Though if I cheated and just used my 496 or iPad/iphone to navigate I could probably manage a VFR crosscountry now in a pinch.
We flew from Copperhill over to Dalton, GA and did a bunch of touch and goes. A couple regular, a soft field, a short field and a power off. All went really well - better than I had hoped. Then did some airwork and returned to Copperhill for another power off approach and landing.
Anyway, nice spending time with an old friend and again sampling how the other half lives!
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