To say I was looking forward to flying Cessna’s new Citation M2 is a great understatement. As I flew from Austin, Texas, up to Wichita, Kansas, in my Garmin-equipped SR22 to meet with the folks from Cessna, I couldn’t help but wonder how Cessna had made a light jet designed more than 20 years ago into the kind of modern marvel buyers (and journalists) expect these days. I’m type-rated in the Cessna Model 525 CitationJet, a rating I earned in a flight simulator outfitted with early legacy avionics that made me long, as I twisted knobs and rotated dials in the dark, for something at least a little more modern.
Clearly, I hadn’t wished for enough. The next day I’d be flying a CJ with next-gen avionics, stuff that very few pilots have seen, much less flown.
