"TTA Cherokee Driver" wrote in message
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Cirrus SR22 which has a severely restricted airframe life; some of
these
planes are already approaching mandatory retirement.


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So you've flown over the 4000+hr current restriction and the 12,000 hr
restriction that will be in place by the end of the year???


I have not. Good heavens. No, a couple of flight schools have said they
are
getting close. They must fly the things constantly.

Cirrus has been promising that 12,000 hour restriction for years, now. I
wish them well.

I searched the online POH for the SR20 and could not find this
limitiation documented. Can you provide a link to documentation of this
limit?

Ah, if it is not on the Internet, it must not be true, eh? :-)

The airframe life limit for the SR20 is 12,000 hours. The airframe life
limit for the SR22 is 4030 hours. The only place you will find that is by
reading the type certification. There may be some place you can find that on
the Internet. It is not in the POH for either aircraft, nor does Cirrus
mention it in any of their advertising or in the purchase agreement.


Then they can start figuring out why these things are
falling out of the sky. There just seems to be no good reason for it. I
suspect training is the issue.


according to the current issue of FLYING, they have stopped falling out
of the sky. Maybe the training has improved.


Well, there were two of them quite recently, but maybe "Flying" went to
press before those incidents occurred.