In other news, Cessna adds tire valve caps to all its piston airplanes for 2020.

I'm sorry, but I'm with the Experimental Tribe and our customs are different. The FBO never touches my creation - as well as fueling her myself, I pull her out of the hangar and put her back myself. Our tribe doesn't depend on some $10 line boy (or girl) to take care of our airplanes. We get down on our backs before every flight and look up in the wheel wells with a flashlight and look for anything amiss, drain the sumps, and check the integrity of the gear doors. We check our own tire pressures and clean our own windows. I guess this is why I kinda' feel like an outsider on BT.

Not at all. I just thought the ad was aimed towards women, not men like you. Maybe I'm just sensitive because so many corporations have gone "woke" these days, to their own detriment.

Aside: The techs at the FBO had the cowling off of a turbocharged Cirrus the other day, and I peeked inside. It was a beautiful sight but, man, things are really packed in there. I thought my Lancair was close-cowled, but the Cirrus had me beat.

That's one of the reasons I like it - classic colors!

I'm sorry, but I'm with the Experimental Tribe and our customs are different. The FBO never touches my creation - as well as fueling her myself, I pull her out of the hangar and put her back myself. Our tribe doesn't depend on some $10 line boy (or girl) to take care of our airplanes. We get down on our backs before every flight and look up in the wheel wells with a flashlight and look for anything amiss, drain the sumps, and check the integrity of the gear doors. We check our own tire pressures and clean our own windows. I guess this is why I kinda' feel like an outsider on BT.

In my old age, I'm learning that. Oh, and get off my lawn!

In my old age, I'm learning that. Oh, and get off my lawn!

There is so much potential for this I can't stop thinking of ideas. If the app has multiple users and is connected all the time it would save so many trips to the airport, so much accounting, etc.

Tesla unlocks the doors and sets the seat position, nav preferences and entertainment profiles based on an app. Cirrus could track fuel added/used, hobbs hours each partner/pilot uses, automatically set the G1000 profile parameters, track operating parameters to compare to partner agreements, alert pilots to schedule conflicts with routine maintenance needed, remind me I forgot to add fuel after landing, etc.

I hope they are just getting started.

Yeah, I admit there is some value to that. But probably not what it costs. But the other stuff is dumb. And so is saying to someone you are ready to go because you checked an app.

Eric,

“Dumb” ???

You forgot to say, “in my opinion.” (The airplane marketplace has certainly not viewed the Cirrus upgrades as dumb during the last 15 years.)

I'd rather have your 310

No preflight required ! ;-p

Brian is going to need to update his video.

https://youtu.be/yOqQtB2Pux4

Whether anyone thinks these options are dumb..... at least Cirrus is innovating constantly. What options come on a new $1MM Bonanza? A 2005 G1000 and wooden floor boards?

I remember talking about the future being connected airplanes a while back. This is only the beginning. In 5 years, you'll be sitting at your kitchen table loading your flight plan into the FMS. It will tell you if your airplane needs more fuel to complete the trip. They'll start doing maintenance information and it will start telling you about scheduling oil changes.

I fly a friend's G6 Cirrus around, out of everything, that little cell phone pocket on the front of the seats is the best addition...

It's an excellent video. Yes, it's hyperbolic with the "I'm smarter, and the plane's smarter" gimmick, but what a product.

Their interiors are works of art.

I'm also wondering if there's a product to fit the gap between the G6 and the Visionjet.