The first impression is one of light and excellent visibility. The pilot’s seat slides right back too, enabling me to step straight from the stairs into my seat and slide it fully forward until my feet reach the pedals. Uploading our flight plan via the Cirrus app is a breeze – the aircraft knows what we want to do with the press of a few buttons, and we’re soon running through the onboard electronic checklist to start up and get ready to fly.Ī nifty split entrance door allows easy access to the cabin, with the top portion rising up and the lower one dropping down with inbuilt steps.
From outside, the most striking thing about it is the V-shaped tail assembly, while the streamlined fuselage expands to make way for a very spacious seating arrangement for five adults.įor this test flight we’re departing from TAG Aviation at Farnborough for a flight to Newquay, with a diversion built into the return which will show off all the navigation kit and other features.
What’s more, it will transport you there in style and comfort, with eye-catching good looks, a cabin that will please the most demanding of passengers, and an intuitive cockpit setup that will leave you grinning at the sheer delight of flying it around the skies.įor pilots used to flying single-engined propeller aircraft, the Vision Jet is pretty easy to fly. Touted as your personal jet, the G2 version of Cirrus’s renowned Vision Jet is a delightful single-pilot private aircraft that happily cruises in the magic 300-knot speed range, offering an attractive combination of the utility to fly in to smaller airports closer to your destination and the performance to do so at speed. Cirrus’s nippy G2 Vision Jet brings the performance of larger aircraft into a small but beautiful package, writes Ben Griffiths
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