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Old September 27th 05, 01:36 AM
Ken Reed
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The Cirrus has an electric trim. I find it's all but impossible to get
fine enough control to really get the thing trimmed up properly at high
speed; it's just too twitchy. But the Cirrus also has an autopilot,
which more than makes up for the twitchy trim. When everything is
working properly, flying the CIrrus cross-country is more like playing a
video game than flying an airplane. (In the best of all worlds I'd like
to have both a manual trim and an autopilot (and a rudder trim while
we're making out wish lists) but if I have to choose just one the AP is
a big win.)


My Cirrus does have rudder trim. The 2001 SR-22 has it. Don't know why
they removed it on more recent models.

KR