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Cirrus sr 221/3/2024 I’ve seen the G6 operate at night, both from the ground and close by in the air, and can vouch for the effectiveness of the new lighting system. Marketing for the G6 includes the strap line ‘arrive, be seen’ and that’s certainly true. Cirrus has designed these lights to be effective on the ground, allowing you to be seen easily while taxying, while not being as distracting as conventional strobe lights – particularly to other aircraft in the vicinity. Triggering is based on the GPS agl calculation. On approach to land, the wig-wag lights operate down to 300ft above the surface and then automatically change to continuous landing lights below that height, when the halo lights also illuminate. Above 300ft the pulsing ‘wig-wag’ strobe lighting functions provide clear visibility to other aircraft. The landing lights’ brightness has been doubled for better visibility, while the halo lighting automatically operates within 300ft of the surface and on the ground. Press the remote keyless entry system, or open the door, and they light up an area around the aircraft along with further specific lighting illuminating the steps. The entire bank of LEDs is housed behind a single lens, so the landing lights, navigation and position lights, dual-strobes, along with a clever ‘halo’ and ground lighting system, are all located in one area. Cirrus designed the system and Whelen built the tooling. The Cirrus Spectra wingtip lights?an automotive-inspired LED lighting solution for the wingtips, exclusive to Cirrus?are a joint project between Cirrus and Whelen Engineering. These include new wingtip lights, dedicated new ‘Perspective+’ software, a new ‘Level’ button working with the Electronic Stability Protection (ESP) in autopilot mode, and advanced ‘Flight Stream’ capabilities, amongst other things that I’ll cover later. Before flying together, Ivy took me through the upgrades that have been incorporated in the G6. Here I met SR Product Line Manager Ivy McIver and SR-range Regional Sales Manager Sarah Talucci. Painted in a spectacular red-and-silver colour scheme, with just fifteen hours on the clock at the time of the flight test, N8851L stood out from the already impressive crowd of Cirrus aircraft on the Elite Aircraft Services ramp at Sanford, a GA airfield south of Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Judging by recent announcements of significant numbers being purchased by a couple of very large airline-based commercial flight training schools, the SR-20 G6 is very attractive for flight training.Įxciting though the new SR-20 may be, this report is about N8851L, a new 310hp, six-cylinder, normally-aspirated Continental IO-550-N-powered SR-22 GTS Generation 6 aircraft, and the improvements that it offers. These changes play a part in allowing a 150 lb increase in the maximum all-up-weight to 3,150 lb. Reducing the cylinder count by two means a lighter unit with fewer parts and therefore, according to Cirrus, lower maintenance costs.Īn optional composite prop in place of the standard aluminium unit further reduces the aircraft’s empty weight by thirty pounds. ![]() The SR-20 now features an engine that is more compact and yet produces greater power, the latest 215hp four-cylinder Lycoming IO-390-C3B6 replacing the previously-offered 200hp six-cylinder Continental IO-360. ![]() The 2017 ‘Generation 6’ upgrades apply to the Cirrus SR-20, SR-22 and SR-22T. Maybe the competition should take a leaf out of its book. Cirrus is not a company that rests on its laurels, regularly updating its products with new offerings. Readers of Pilot’s flight test on the Cirrus SR-22 ‘Generation 5’ aircraft (January 2017) may be surprised to learn that the featured model has already been superseeded. Generation 6: Your generation? Onwards and upwards! How does the new SR-22 ‘Generation 6’ compare to the very recent G5? Words Keith Wilson, Photos Keith Wilson & Cirrus AircraftĪccording to GAMA statistics, Cirrus’s single-engine piston aircraft sales have consistently outperformed all other general aviation manufacturers in the last fourteen years, the company taking the largest share of the GA market for the past two years.
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