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The conditions were predicted to remain crummy into the afternoon. The skies were clear until we reached Charleston, where a wide band of heavy rain slid across Georgia and South Carolina. Photos: SR22 G6 at Marathon Key Jim Koepnick ATC assigned us the Morristown Six Departure to join up with V1, the airbound equivalent of the East Coast’s Route 1, and follow it for roughly the next 600 nautical miles to Charleston Executive Airport (KJZI), where we’d refuel and grab lunch. The adventure started the morning before in the cold at my home field, Morristown Municipal Airport (KMMU) in New Jersey. By now the secret is out and the G6 is the talk of the Cirrus-owner community - but at that time flying the new model required stealth since it was among the most closely guarded secrets in all of general aviation.Īs we rode in the golf cart to retrieve our rental car from the sleepy airline terminal next door to the Marathon General Aviation FBO, I thought back to the journey that had brought us here.

My introduction to the G6 SR22 included a half-dozen flights over the span of three days in mid-December.

CIRRUS SR22 WINDOWS

She set to work fitting wingtip covers over the telltale Whelen Engineering-designed LED light strips and strategically placing sun shades in the windscreen and side windows so that no one could peer inside and see the new Perspective+ avionics system with its qwerty-style keyboard and subtly altered buttonology.

Painted in an attractive Athens blue and sterling gray paint scheme, it was different enough from a G5 SR22 that my traveling companion, Cirrus SR product-line manager Ivy McIver, went to great lengths to ensure no snooping eyes on the ramp could deduce that this was the new generation. FLYING exclusive offer: Unlimited access for Conklin&deDecker piston aircraft data.

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