Well there she is, a beautiful 2010 Cirrus SR22T. And the T stands for TURBO! This awesome looking aircraft is going to be my home for the next week, or so, as I ferry it from Augsburg Germany to Las Vegas in the good ole US of A. The plane is very well equipped and in great shape so hopefully it will keep making noise all the way across the north Atlantic and get us safely to sin city. Going with me this time is my good friend, and fellow ferry pilot, Marcio Lucchese. Marcio has about 50 ferry flights under his belt but all of them in business jets so making the crossing in a single engine piston is going to be an eye opener for him. We do have one thing going for us and that’s the plane itself. The fact that it’s turbo charged and oxygen equipped gives us the ability to climb up to 25,000 feet and cruise above most of the bad weather that might be in our way. This baby also tops out at a sweet 208 nautical miles and hour, that’s 237 miles and hour for you non-pilot types. At that speed we’ll be losing money at the craps table in no time.
