Nubie Question: New or Used for New Pilot?

It depends a lot on how the previous owner and his/her A&P treated
maintenance issues. Catch-up is very expensive. It also depends on
your attitude. Retractable gear can add significantly to maintenance
cost if the owner is very particular because the cost of failure is so
high.

Example: gear strut shows leakage. One owner will have the seals
replaced immediately, another will let it go until it's flat, another
will put on the list for the next annual. Multiply this by 1000
individual parts.

Review the annual logs. On an older aircraft (5 years) it should
show lots of nitty-gritty fixes - seals, hinges, wires, etc.

C J Campbell wrote:


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? :-)

Not at all, I just wanted a quick-n-easy link to point someone to.

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.

That info sure makes the googling easier.

Found a reference to it he
http://www.airplanenoise.com/article....%20Cirrus.pdf

Getting the correct number (4350) off that website makes Cirrus's own
website be result #2 when googling on: sr22 4350 hours

http://www.cirrusdesign.com/aircraft/faq/index.html

It's definitely easy to find when you know the right info to google for.

The comparision site also says that TBO on the SR22 engine is only 1700
hours, that surprised me.

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.


True. But those were not fatal accidents. An alarmingly high rate of
fatal accidents was the knock on Cirrus, as I recall. The latest FLYING
has a column by one of their regulars claiming the cirrus accident rate
is now roughly equivalent to that for 182's.

TTA Cherokee Driver wrote:

according to the current issue of FLYING, they have stopped falling out
of the sky.

That would have been the opinion of the staff at Flying about three months ago.

George Patterson
This marriage is off to a shaky start. The groom just asked the band to
play "Your cheatin' heart", and the bride just requested "Don't come home
a'drinkin' with lovin' on your mind".

anyone know how Diamond Aircraft compares to the Cirrus? Same airframe
life? how about safty record??

TTA Cherokee Driver wrote:
C J Campbell wrote:


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? :-)


Not at all, I just wanted a quick-n-easy link to point someone to.

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.


That info sure makes the googling easier.

Found a reference to it he
http://www.airplanenoise.com/article....%20Cirrus.pdf

Getting the correct number (4350) off that website makes Cirrus's own
website be result #2 when googling on: sr22 4350 hours

http://www.cirrusdesign.com/aircraft/faq/index.html

It's definitely easy to find when you know the right info to google for.

The comparision site also says that TBO on the SR22 engine is only 1700
hours, that surprised me.

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.


True. But those were not fatal accidents. An alarmingly high rate of
fatal accidents was the knock on Cirrus, as I recall. The latest FLYING
has a column by one of their regulars claiming the cirrus accident rate
is now roughly equivalent to that for 182's.