Turbo Transition Training
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AirShares Owners will transition into the SR22 G3 Turbo-Normalized aircraft using the transition training program created by Cirrus Aircraft. AirShares Owners from other regions who are already checked out in the normally aspirated SR22 and wish to be checked out in the G3 Turbo must complete the Airframe & Powerplant Differences syllabus with a Cirrus Standardized Instructor.
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All AirShares pilots are required to demonstrate instrument proficiency at the conclusion of transition training during a comprehensive ground and flight evaluation administered by a designated AirShares check pilot.
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For more Perspective Avionics training resources, please click here.
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G3 Turbo Training Supporting Documents
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High Altitude Physiological Training
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The risk of hypoxia when flying an unpressurized aircraft at high altitudes is very serious. Pilots should take all the precautions they can to minimize this risk and a huge component of that would be focused training on the subject.
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The FAA Civil Aerospace Medical Institute offers a 1-day training course to familiarize US civil aviation pilots and flight crews with the physiological and psychological stresses of flight. Pilots who are knowledgeable about physiological phenomena encountered in the aviation environment are better prepared to deal with such potentially fatal inflight events such as hypoxia, spatial disorientation, and more.
This course can be taken at many USAF bases throughout the country, but the Oklahoma location offers a 1-day survival course that may make it worth the trip.
AirShares Elite strongly discourages flight above 17,500 feet without this important training.
Click here for more information.
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Listen to real radio transmissions of an hypoxia event in an SR22!
On May 17, 2011, the pilot of a Cirrus SR22 became incapacitated while climbing for 17,000, through clouds, out of San Bernardino en route to Colorado Springs -- click here to listen to audio of the event. On board the Cirrus, a 70-year-old pilot was flying with his non-pilot wife. They were in daytime IFR conditions when the Cirrus pilot is heard on frequency breathing heavily. He then appears to become incoherent. Shortly thereafter, his wife responds to inquiries from the controller, stating, "I'm trying to help. Hang on." The next 40 minutes of the flight showcase a coordinated effort by the controller, the pilot of a passing Great Lakes Airlines commercial flight, and the non-pilot wife on board the SR22, as they attempt to guide the aircraft away from rising terrain and down to a lower altitude.
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