The Next Step

It has been a while since my last post and much has happened pertaining to my Cirrus and flying.  I have had my Cirrus up for sale for the past couple months and have a lot of “lookers” or “tire kickers” and on two different occasions got to the point of taking it in for a prebuy inspection, only to find out the lookers had another aircraft in contract.  I even had one person accuse me of not knowing what I was flying and told me that my aircraft was “not a GTS, because Cirrus didn’t make a GTS in 2004.”  Luckily for me he was an idiot and didn’t pursue the aircraft because he obviously has no clue as to what he was talking about (yes Cirrus made a GTS in mid 2004 and mine was a late 2004).

As of a couple weeks ago, I sold the Cirrus to its new owner in Oregon.  I had a great final flight delivering her and I’ll write a post on that shortly.  It is very sad to see her go, but the time had come for some life changes and we just couldn’t keep her.  I’m positive that there will be another Cirrus in this family again because it truly is one of the best and safest GA aircraft on the market!  It is by far the best plane for the money on the market right now (new or used) and quite frankly I just can’t see ever owning something like a Mooney, Bonanza, Piper, or Cessna because they are all outdated, small and can’t perform like a Cirrus – AND none of them have the safety of the chute!  Not bad mouthing these aircraft because they are all great planes in their own ways, but none of them come close to the total package of a Cirrus for the mission I had.

So now that the plane is gone, what’s next?  Well it’s time to continue my flying education and start seriously working on my commercial and multi ratings.  Both should be extremely fun, but the multi-rating will be tough because not only is it ridiculously expensive, but it’s extremely hard to even find a twin to rent!  What’s even harder is that I’m now really comfortable with “glass” and don’t want to step back into an old antiquated steam gauge cockpit, so my options are very limited if not impossible.  It should be an interesting adventure, but I look forward to pursuing it and I’ll post about it as I go.