David Abrams

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since July 20, 2002

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July 20, 2002, on Plastic Airplanes:
Hi Philip, I flew our new Cirrus SR20 home today. I might point out in your comparison, the SR20 I bought has a backup electric vacuum pump that automatically comes on if the engine driven one fails (of course V2.0 will be all electric.) Only the AI is vacuum powered. I also have two alternators so if one goes I still have electric. (and 9 V batteries to power the TC if they go as well). Finally the Avidyne is way cool (and a reasonable trade off for the 530 you have vs my two 430's) It shows terrain (with elevation coloring), approaches, towers, airways and way more than the Garmin display. (Still not as good as the MX20 though). The autopilot does not have the cool altitude preset you have but it will fly an ILS localizer and glideslope with less than 1/2 bar deviation (and way better than I can). When you get back from AK you will have to take a ride and let me know what you think. After 4 days of training in Duluth I feel pretty comfortable with the plane but you are ri...