@boscomantico is this an aircraft boneyard for Cirruses?
If this not a fly-in, a prime Cirrus maintenance company based there may have a serious manpower shortage.
Darned, Bosco may be right. On a proper fly-in they’d be parked like this! May 2003, same location. Fond memories of my Cirrus days.
Is this an aircraft boneyard for Cirruses?
They say that a recent record was 61 Cirrus aircraft on their ramp and in their hangars.
some are waiting for CAPS parts
some are waiting for other parts
some are waiting to be picked up again
some are for sale
etc.
To me this kind of scene says a lot of customers are absolutely desperate, and for various reasons, some of which may include disputes.
I know of a maintenance shop (won’t say where but not anywhere near my base) whose yard is full of abandoned planes, and according to one customer a lot of them were abandoned by owners who felt it was safer to write off a few tens of k (I am talking of pre-covid values) than having to deal with the maint company owner who was known for “getting physical” Not suggesting that is the case here but clearly a lot of people are having to accept a lot of downtime which I am sure they didn’t expect to have when they spent the money.
Downtime is a big feature of GA… like this and that is an SR22!
It‘s a free world, so I wouls rather say people accept a few downsides for the enormous joy that these airplanes give you.
Anyway, today‘s missions accomplished with an ILS back home.
EKRN
boscomantico wrote:
Anyway, today‘s missions accomplished with an ILS back home.
Way off centerline, @boscomantico
Flying to Montpellier in August 2023 on our way to Bologna, at FL150 (Roughly 2.84 miles up)
The Savannah squadron was out yesterday (un)securing the skies