Fly_Unity
Well-Known Member
ok, I have this family I work for buy a brand new GT3 SR22 Turbo Cirrus, with all the options you can get on it. I been flying them around for his business, and they paid for my training to get me CSIP certified. The owner is an older guy (60?) and he wants to get his private pilot license.
I have about 1000 hours of dual given but only in steam gauges and have some questions:
1. This plane is made to be flown with an auto pilot pretty much, Workload is a bit high to hand fly it, navigating, and doing checklist etc while hand flying it. Will an examiner want him to hand fly the entire checkride? or use the auto pilot for the majority of it?
2. As far as the cross countries, solo cross countries, and the navigation and dead reckoning on the Cirrus, Is GPS allowed? Can he enter all his way-points on the ground before taking off in the FMS? I really cant see someone navigating with a sectional chart using pilotage going about 200 knots. What do they expect to see here? Will the examiner want to see the applicant fly with a map in case of a PFD/MFD failure? or will he want to see how the applicant would do this cross country using all the avionics and resources available?
3. as part of cross countries, where this Garmin 1000 with the perspective and synthetic vision has FOD (fuel over destination) ETA, ETA, miles left to destination, Weather, wind direction and velocity, etc etc. Will the examiner still want to see him using a E6B to find this stuff out when hes on his cross country portion of his checkride? Or is this not be neccasary when he can just read it from the screen?
4. How nerve racking is it to solo a student in a high performance airplane with 320 horse power?
Any one else here have experiance teaching a private in a Cirrus, or a high performance, or glass cockpit? I just have no idea what to expect. Like I said this guy is an older guy which will take him a while to just figure out the Garmin. I want to make this as easy as I can for him. He dont ever plan to fly for himself but just wants to get his license to know how to fly. Money is no object to him, and he will take lessons as long as it takes for him to get it.
Thanks for any advice.
I have about 1000 hours of dual given but only in steam gauges and have some questions:
1. This plane is made to be flown with an auto pilot pretty much, Workload is a bit high to hand fly it, navigating, and doing checklist etc while hand flying it. Will an examiner want him to hand fly the entire checkride? or use the auto pilot for the majority of it?
2. As far as the cross countries, solo cross countries, and the navigation and dead reckoning on the Cirrus, Is GPS allowed? Can he enter all his way-points on the ground before taking off in the FMS? I really cant see someone navigating with a sectional chart using pilotage going about 200 knots. What do they expect to see here? Will the examiner want to see the applicant fly with a map in case of a PFD/MFD failure? or will he want to see how the applicant would do this cross country using all the avionics and resources available?
3. as part of cross countries, where this Garmin 1000 with the perspective and synthetic vision has FOD (fuel over destination) ETA, ETA, miles left to destination, Weather, wind direction and velocity, etc etc. Will the examiner still want to see him using a E6B to find this stuff out when hes on his cross country portion of his checkride? Or is this not be neccasary when he can just read it from the screen?
4. How nerve racking is it to solo a student in a high performance airplane with 320 horse power?
Any one else here have experiance teaching a private in a Cirrus, or a high performance, or glass cockpit? I just have no idea what to expect. Like I said this guy is an older guy which will take him a while to just figure out the Garmin. I want to make this as easy as I can for him. He dont ever plan to fly for himself but just wants to get his license to know how to fly. Money is no object to him, and he will take lessons as long as it takes for him to get it.
Thanks for any advice.