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Cirrus SR22T: Tried, True, Turbo

Cirrus SR22T Robert Goyer
Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • The Cirrus SR22 has introduced a significant upgrade with a new factory-turbocharged Continental TSIO-550-K engine, offered as an alternative to its existing turbo-normalized option.
  • This new engine provides key operational and performance improvements, including quieter and smoother operation (due to lower RPM), brisker acceleration, better climb rates, and simplified engine management.
  • The author, an experienced SR22 pilot, highly commends the new engine for making the aircraft a more elegant and integrated product, noting its superiority and strong customer preference over the previous option.
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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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