You missed your chance to do one of the pilot favorites: Bashing the FAA as horrible and saying it should be junked. Well unless it's about preventing an airport closure or preventing ATC Privatization, in which case the FAA is wonderful and needs protection.

/snicker

To be fair Deltahawk never did say which "new century"

So first I know quite a bit about this program. So most of what I know is not for public discussion. I do feel a responsibility to point out to the pontificators in the room. GA was dead in 1999, we could only look to experimental aircraft for new designs. I started to pay attention and started to work with them when my opinion faltered at apparent reality. Cirrus proved us and me wrong as I thought GA was dead. Single engine personal jets were a passing fad, again I was skeptical, but i now run into thrilled owners of SF50 aircraft on a monthly basis. I was wrong to think this segment was dead. So we now see a new Cirrus in front of us, I have learned and profited from supporting Cirrus and not following conventional wisdom. Think what you want, Cirrus’s next direction will be a new revolution I stand on this , as experience has proven me right

Watch this space.

A 2 seat airplane that looks almost exactly like their current 4 seat one.

Thank you Cirrus for such radical innovation.

Mike C.

maybe the innovation is price. maybe it's fuel consumption. Who knows.

Or maybe it will have the ability to run on unleaded fuel, like the ethanol free fuels that are sold for boat use around here.

Yeah, nobody has tried to innovate in those areas. Well, except for just about every company that builds a light plane, and the entire LSA industry.

The "revolution", if you want to call it that, will likely where it will be built and the target market: China.

The Chinese own Cirrus. To jump start GA in China, they need a BUNCH of 2 seat trainers. With trade wars and labor costs, don't want to build those here. So design a light 2 seat trainer, build it in China in large quantities, make it run on unleaded car gas or jet/diesel since 100LL is rare in that part of the world.

So the "revolution" will be about the impact on the Chinese domestic market, not what the airplane design is.

Mike C.

Yeah, nobody has tried to innovate in those areas. Well, except for just about every company that builds a light plane, and the entire LSA industry.

You are another victim of Cirrus marketing.

Nothing on a Cirrus was invented by Cirrus or first to appear on a Cirrus.

Not even the parachute.

The Corvalis, for example, is significantly faster than a Cirrus on the same power.

Cirrus technology is mundane, standard. What they claim as "innovations" each year are trifles.

If you disagree, write down everything that first appeared on a Cirrus. Then Google it and check. If any of your list remains, I bet it will be laughably trivial things.

What Cirrus is good at is marketing, including the message they are "innovators".

GA doesn't need "innovation". GA needs "economical". Cirrus certainly ain't that.

Mike C.

You are another victim of Cirrus marketing.

Nothing on a Cirrus was invented by Cirrus or first to appear on a Cirrus.

Not even the parachute.

The Corvalis, for example, is significantly faster than a Cirrus on the same power.

Cirrus technology is mundane, standard. What they claim as "innovations" each year are trifles.

If you disagree, write down everything that first appeared on a Cirrus. Then Google it and check. If any of your list remains, I bet it will be laughably trivial things.

What Cirrus is good at is marketing, including the message they are "innovators".

GA doesn't need "innovation". GA needs "economical". Cirrus certainly ain't that.

Mike C.

OK - look back 30 years in piston GA and who is good at selling? Cirrus

GA needs products that sell. maybe Cirrus will succeed.

I know - innovation hidden in plane (sic) sight. You gotta love it

In the immortal words of Taylor Swift - Haters goin to hate, hate, hate

Labeling others as haters is a typical illogical reaction by believers.

Still waiting for that list of "innovations" by Cirrus.

Mike C.

yep. And a carbon cub looks a lot like a PA-11. They must be the same thing.

Provide a list for Cirrus.

Cirrus SR series is an excellent execution of established ideas. Cirrus is not a creator of new ideas.

Mike C.