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Cirrus SR22T: Tried, True, Turbo

Cirrus SR22T Robert Goyer
Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • The Cirrus SR22T introduces a new Continental factory-turbocharged engine (TSIO-550-K), offering an alternative to the existing Tornado Alley turbo-normalized engine.
  • This new engine provides notable performance improvements, including better acceleration and climb rates, a smoother and quieter operation due to lower RPM, and a factory warranty.
  • The author, an experienced SR22 pilot, highly favors the new engine for its refined characteristics, considering it a simpler, more elegant, and better integrated product that customers are overwhelmingly choosing.
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The hope is that, as a product develops, it will mature. And I mean “mature” in the good way, you know, like expensive wine, fine Swiss watches and very fast airplanes, like the Cirrus SR22.

I was the first journalist to fly the original SR22, and I’ve flown every new one since, some of them for several hundred hours. Based on my experience in the airplane, I feel confident in saying that a new SR22 is a substantially better airplane in nearly every respect than the original. Most of that improvement has been incremental, with a few big exceptions, including the upgrade to the G3 model a few years back and the concurrent offering of the Turbo model, as well as the introduction of the Entegra and Perspective flight decks.

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