In article , Ash Wyllie wrote:
One suspects that they have 2 pilots, 4 or more displays, a bunch of airdata
computers and several independent pitot-static systems. Just a little more
redundency than your typical GA aircraft.

But if you look at the screensh^W photographs of the Cirrus panel,
you'll see not only the glass, but underneath, a normal AI gyro,
mechanical altimeter and airspeed.

That's more redundancy than most IFR-equipped steam gauge GA aircraft
have. Most steam gauge IFR-equipped GA aircraft also put the most useful
gyros (AI and DI) on a very unreliable vacuum pump, leaving the TC as
the more reliably-powered unit. (Anecdotally, more pilots seem to have
experienced a vacuum failure than an electrical failure, and personal
experience seems to bear this out).

Personally, I feel lust over that Cirrus panel. If I had the money, a
Cirrus would definitely be in the running in aircraft I'd be looking at.

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