This article is from the September issue of “Cirrus Pilot”.
In publications similar to this, it is commonplace to
read articles about complex IFR procedures and the
technicalities that go along with them. It is equally
common in type-club magazines to read about larger,
faster, more capable aircraft that one might eventually
consider stepping up to. What you are about to read has
nothing at all to do with instrument flying and, if anything,
is the antithesis of a step-up aircraft article. The stepdown
fix I’m referring to is not part of an instrument
approach. It is the cure for the blues that often inflict
pilots who’ve become singularly focused on flying their
high-performance aircraft and staying proficient in all
the information and skills required. Along the way, some
aviators begin feeling that flying has lost some of its
joy. Other aviators eventually reach a point in their lives
where flying powerful, complex aircraft may no longer be
necessary, economically feasible or medically possible.
Still other pilots, like myself, enjoy the juxtaposition of
maintaining an assigned Mach number in the flight
levels one day, while commanding the simplest of flying
machines the next. Whatever your situation, somewhere
out there in the aeronautical universe is the antidote to
nearly any case of pilot blues … your step-down fix.
http://www.sonexaircraft.com/press/Sonex_Cirrus_Pilot_0915.pdf
I’m soon finished building my Onex, meaning I should start looking for a Cirrus to put my Onex to good use 
(I have more more to build though, an RV-4 is next).
