Traffic pattern with Cirrus SR-20 on KPAO

[esvcirruspilot]

great clip.i love the cirrus........... hello from austria

[applepan100]

At 2:30 it sounds like the governor lol

[rockydavine]

cool vid, but the plane's being operated illegally. the caps (parachute) pin is still installed. (you can tell because the mandatory instruction placard Remove Before Flight is attached to the pin, and it's visible hanging from the center of the cabin headliner.)

[cskog001]

@rockydavine Not 'illegally' just not as advised by POH. The CAPS is not a required system to fly. It's not as if the Airspeed indicator weren't working.

[kingof4rings]

i love the atc radio with the vid. good stuff

[33jarhead88]

Kudos to that controller for even noticing your flap settings, very observant. Nice video and nice landing Kate!

[hotty198]

can you post in hd next time? nice vid. just encode video at least 1280X720 resolution.

[LRel2]

Pilots does it when the aircraft is below the correct glide slope (meaning when the airplane is too low)

[sweetsf4life]

Nice video! especially the sound recording part. I can't seem to find a video camera that I can plug in an external microphone. I've been flying out of San Jose for about 4 years, I will probably join WVFC sometime soon, I love this Cirrus. And wow, I can't believe the tower actually pays attention to your flaps setting. Haha

[edomalley1]

I record my audio using a pocket-sized digital voice recorder and a 1/8" male to 1/4" male cable. I edit it to the video using imovie or finalcut express. No external mic on the video recorder required :)

[THExGOODxLIFE307]

nice video, i like it, but is it hard to use the Sr 20 control column?

[karoliinasalminen]

Not hard at all. I like it very much. However, I find the Diamond DA40 is even easier to fly, but the Cirrus certainly isn't bad in ergonomy, quite much the contrary.

The biggest downside of Cirrus is the stick feel, you are pushing and pulling against a spring instead of airload. It makes harder to fly accurately.

[Khatsalano]

I'm very impressed by the way it sounds ... gots to get out of my Cessna and into one of these. : )

[THExGOODxLIFE307]

yeah but you can only the control column with one hand very hard if there is the elevator jams and you have to muscle your way down

[djjstylz]

Thats my instructor Scott! hahahaha

[djjstylz]

Thats my instructor Scott! hahaha

[beefypenguin]

that cockpit looks more like the sr 22

[paintballdude518]

beutiful and expensive aircraft im in flight school now and have not had the luxury of flying one

[THExGOODxLIFE307]

yeah SR20s are nice i only get to fly DA40s

[gforcewarrior]

My school just bought a bunch of SR20's...I liked the DA40 better.

[karoliinasalminen]

Not really Scott's daughter, it is Kate Alhola from Finland.

We were spending our vacation by flying in San Francisco bay-area. This was Kate's first familiarization flight on Cirrus SR20 and what you see here is actually the part of the latter part of the flight.

[louiemalkovitch]

Scott's Daughter?

[dominican1000]

wonderful