DCA to get 50 Cirrus

H46Bubba

H46Bubba

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Just got this in my e-mail from AOPA.

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]DELTA CONNECTION BUYS 50 CIRRUS SR20s[/FONT]
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With 529 deliveries in the first three quarters of the year, Cirrus Design is the leading manufacturer of GA aircraft. And while its focus to date has been mostly on personally flown aircraft, Cirrus is beginning to crack the training market with significant fleet sales. Western Michigan University currently operates 30 Cirrus airplanes in its training fleet. At AOPA Expo, Cirrus announced that it has inked a 50-aircraft order with Delta Connection Academy (DCA), headquartered in Sanford, Florida. DCA has already taken delivery of its first SR20; the remaining SR20s will be delivered over the next year or so--replacing the flight training organization's stalwart fleet of Cessna 152s and 172s. Gary Beck, DCA chairman, said speed was the primary reason for the change, although Cirrus' commitment to the training market and emphasis on safety and versatility also played a role. With DCA changing its training program to be more scenario-based through the FAA-Industry Training Standards program, the company was looking for an airplane that could more quickly move its students to outlying airports to conduct training. Beck said the company had been evaluating updating its fleet for three years, with an emphasis on choosing a manufacturer that could supply a new fleet with electronic flight instrumentation systems so its students could more easily transition into airline fleets. To support the switch to Cirrus airplanes, DCA also is partnering with AeroSim Technologies to take delivery of $4.3 million in Aerosim-Mectronix flight simulators of various levels of sophistication.[/FONT]

Took them f'n long enough. Oh they're gonna jack the prices up, I can see it in my trusty 8 Ball !
 
Now DCA will be putting out pilots that won't have a single hour of steam guage time. What happens when they have to go instruct at other schools with older cessnas/pipers?

I also heard from a DCA instructor that they will soon be doing their spin/upset recovery training in an Extra 300. Cost? $6000.
 
Man... that's going to be a really cool site... seeing all those airplanes parachuting to earth above central florida! ;)

Bob
 
Champcar said:
ATP also just purchased a whole bunch of D-jets
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ATP_Press_Release said:
Airline Transport Professionals (ATP) today announced its purchase of 20 Diamond D-JETs and 5 Diamond Flight Training Devices (FTDs) and the formation of a strategic training partnership with Diamond Aircraft, in which ATP will provide factory-approved initial type ratings and recurrent training in the Diamond D-JET at locations across the U.S.
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We'll see how it all pans out... but it seems to be a great alliance.

Bob
 
H46Bubba said:
Just got this in my e-mail from AOPA.

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]DELTA CONNECTION BUYS 50 CIRRUS SR20s[/FONT]
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cirrusSr20_061110.jpg
With 529 deliveries in the first three quarters of the year, Cirrus Design is the leading manufacturer of GA aircraft. And while its focus to date has been mostly on personally flown aircraft, Cirrus is beginning to crack the training market with significant fleet sales. Western Michigan University currently operates 30 Cirrus airplanes in its training fleet. At AOPA Expo, Cirrus announced that it has inked a 50-aircraft order with Delta Connection Academy (DCA), headquartered in Sanford, Florida. DCA has already taken delivery of its first SR20; the remaining SR20s will be delivered over the next year or so--replacing the flight training organization's stalwart fleet of Cessna 152s and 172s. Gary Beck, DCA chairman, said speed was the primary reason for the change, although Cirrus' commitment to the training market and emphasis on safety and versatility also played a role. With DCA changing its training program to be more scenario-based through the FAA-Industry Training Standards program, the company was looking for an airplane that could more quickly move its students to outlying airports to conduct training. Beck said the company had been evaluating updating its fleet for three years, with an emphasis on choosing a manufacturer that could supply a new fleet with electronic flight instrumentation systems so its students could more easily transition into airline fleets. To support the switch to Cirrus airplanes, DCA also is partnering with AeroSim Technologies to take delivery of $4.3 million in Aerosim-Mectronix flight simulators of various levels of sophistication.[/FONT]

Took them f'n long enough. Oh they're gonna jack the prices up, I can see it in my trusty 8 Ball !
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well being a former student from there unfortunately with these new planes man are they gonna charge the hell out of students from 90k flying 152's and 72's to who knows how high now with actually a new fleet.
 
Oh hell, I could get my cat Sprite an interview with a regional and she doesn't even have any multi.

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Captain_Bob said:
We'll see how it all pans out... but it seems to be a great alliance.

Bob
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Except I don't know of any airlines that fly the D-Jet. Sounds like a useless type to me. Might as well just type the students in the Citation they already have. Now, if you go to ATP and want to go corporate, then maybe. However, there'll either be a HUGE gap in hours for corporate mins or they'll be instructing at ATP for years. If ATP had bought Twin Stars, I woulda said that made sense. Buying the jets, though, makes no sense to me unless they're starting a type rating blitz just so students can say "I have a type!" Too CAPT/JetU-ish for me, and I've always thought ATP was above that.
 
The way I understand the D-Jet deal, is that they will provide type and recurrent training for D-Jet owners and pilots. I didn't think it was part of any airline program, but I've been wrong before. ;)

Edit: I looked at the Website for ATP and I was wrong again. While they will use the jets for initial and recurrent training, it looks as though they will use them in their airline programs.
 
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