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Cirrus crashes at KAND
BREAKING NOW: At least one confirmed fatality. Will post more details asap. (m.foxcarolina.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
And as a Lancair guy, you have as much experience as anyone in a Cirrus with a high performance single that has some "gotchas" for the under-trained. I remember some of the stuff I heard from Lancair "pilots" when it first came out that made me worry about whether their Check Pilot was actually paying attention when he signed them off for their PPL.
True. Pilots must accept the need for diligence in exchange for aircraft performance. The hottest Lancairs for years have been the IV-PT. The few insurance companies who would cover them required at least annual and in some cases semi-annual 2-day classes in the theory and practice of flying the aircraft. My ES-P has a high speed cruise of 260kt, way below its thin-winged brethren. On the other hand, it handles like a puppy dog and therefore insurance is cheap and the accident rate is low.
Of all the hundreds of aircraft accidents listed in the NTSB reports, why would this typical and not unusual one end up in Flight Aware?
Because it happened practically in my backyard and I wanted to post it. Problem with that?
Pilot's friend who witnessed the crash said he thought it might have stalled after taking off.
Weather here was perfect today.
Weather here was perfect today.
Considering that Cirrus has been banking on the safety of the aircraft with it's fancy-dancy parachute, it sure does crash a lot. If they're going to market it as a safe plane, they should try to make it easier to hand-fly.
Discussing the topic of de-ice techniques one Cirrus owner told me his plane had a fool-proof de-ice system activated by the 'chute deployment handle - and by his tone I realized he meant it. In the end, every aircraft is safe when well maintained and flown by a trained pilot. The limitation of the Cirrus is not the design, it is the pilot.