![]() And it didn’t take me long to figure out that when the SR20 is done flying during the flare, you better be close to the runway and ready to touch down because there is no energy left to smooth out the touchdown. The SR20 isn’t hard to fly, but it likes to fly by the numbers. My talented instructor-Didier Ushijima-never tried to rush through anything and allowed me to take my time, make my own mistakes and cement the learning through practice and repetition. His was the second local Cirrus training company I contacted via their websites the first company never responded to me. I also have to credit CalAir owner Jonathan Lucas for a quick response to my website query about transition training. CalAir’s fleet is well maintained and in excellent condition, and the operation and its instructors are serious about safety and proper standard operating procedures, something that is sadly missing in much general aviation flying. The checkout was with CalAir, a Cirrus-only flight training, airplane rental and management company based at Hawthorne Airport just south of the busy final approach corridor to Los Angeles International Airport. This is as modern as light general aviation airplanes get these days, with Garmin’s synthetic vision, GFC 700 autopilot and FMS control panel, Max-Viz enhanced vision and, of course, the famous and still-controversial Cirrus Airframe Parachute System ( CAPS). I finally decided to get checked out in a modern airplane, a 2015 Cirrus SR20 equipped with the Garmin Perspective avionics suite.
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