Robert - I love to read your stuff and appreciate your openess to questions and thoughts from others. One point that isn't necessarily clear in your good piece is the inherent complexity of going from what is fundamentally a 185 knot airplane at 10,000 feet (no one I know is really flying the SR 22 at 220kts in the flight levels on a regular basis) to a 300 knot airplane in the flight levels. The necessity to stay ahead of the airplane is far greater, ATC rightly expects a much higher level of professionalism, and the temptation to believe that one can substitute gadgets for piloting skills, experience and judgment is far more important to resist. One of the things that Cessna has done right with the Mustang is affiliate with Flight Safety and make the type rating course very rigorous. I think that has shown in the very good safety record of the airplane. My fear is that any number of 500 hour private pilots with a fresh instrument rating and a fresh wallet will think that because of the lack of relative compexity and the reputation of Cirrus aircraft as user friendly they are good to go. No matter how less complex, an SR 22 and a 300 kt jet just ain't the same beast.
