![]() Matt would fly in the right seat and serve as my guide to the Vision’s many capabilities.Īfter a walk-around, we loaded our bags into the unpressurized aft cargo hold and climbed aboard. Kate and I met up with Matt Bergwall, Cirrus Vision program manager, at KMMU for our introduction to the airplane that would be taking us to the land of championship golf courses, tidal creeks and pluff mud - the slippery, shiny brown-gray sucky sludge on the banks of the Lowcountry salt marshes that smells horrid but is supposedly good for your skin. Really? I’ve flown some unique airplanes to interesting locales, but I can’t recall anyone ever tossing me the keys to a newly certified jet and saying, “Have fun.” But if they were game, that’s exactly what I planned to do. You see, several months ago the marketing folks at Cirrus suggested I appraise the airplane in a way I might if I actually owned it. My time in the Vision Jet was kind of like that. There’s a great scene in the classic John Hughes film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in which Ferris (Matthew Broderick), having “borrowed” his friend Cameron’s father’s 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California for a day of top-down reverie in and around Chicago, turns to the camera and asks, “If you had access to a car like this, would you take it back right away?” After a beat: “Neither would I.” ![]() Clearly, flying the Vision Jet called for an experience befitting the occasion. As such, the typical spin around the patch - a few steep turns, maybe, followed by three takeoffs and landings - wouldn’t suffice for our flight report in an airplane as important as this. The SF50 Vision Jet from Cirrus Aircraft is one of these uncommon airplanes. ![]() Only rarely does a benchmark airplane come along that demands the creation of an entirely new category in which to place it, one that shatters conventional thinking with radical leaps in design and operating efficiency. ![]()
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