60 Buying a 2006 Cirrus SR22 and flying it across the country – Interview with Mike McIntyre
Aviation News Talk podcast
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🗓️ 5 May 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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60 Buying a Cirrus SR22 and flying it across the country –Mike McIntyre
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Max interviews Mike McIntyre, who recently purchased a 2006 Cirrus SR22 located in northern California and then fly the aircraft to Macon, Georgia. Together they flew over 2000 nautical miles and crossed the entire country in a day and a half. They discuss the buying process, trip planning, and weather.
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| 0:00.0 | A little nervous. It was a high performance airplane. I hadn't flown one of those before coming from a Piper Archer, which is significantly less powerful. |
| 0:09.9 | But just, you know, once we got up and we're flying level and getting a good view of California, he was really enjoying it. |
| 0:17.5 | Now, this is my definition of a cross country. |
| 0:23.7 | Hello, and thank you for joining us for episode 60 of the Aviation News Talk podcast, where |
| 0:28.2 | we bring you general aviation news and relevant tips and information that pilots like you can |
| 0:32.4 | put to use. Hi, I'm Max Truscott. If you're joining us for the first time, we have a weekly |
| 0:36.6 | show that focuses on news, and on those shows, I discuss a particular pilot skill. |
| 0:41.2 | For example, last week in episode 59, we talked about some recent fatal accidents. |
| 0:46.1 | But occasionally, we'll also drop in an interview show like this one today. |
| 0:49.7 | Today, we're talking about a long cross-country flight I made a few weeks ago to bring a 2006 SR22 from Northern California to Macon, Georgia. |
| 0:58.3 | And to help tell the story, I've asked Mike McIntyre, who was the buyer of that aircraft, to join us and give us his impressions of the trip, which covered over 2,000 autical miles in a day and a half. |
| 1:08.2 | Plus, we'll talk about the process that Mike used to buy his first airplane and some |
| 1:12.5 | of the things that he learned along the way. |
| 1:14.7 | Now, if you really enjoy this show and are looking for more, I invite you to go out |
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| 1:21.8 | stories that I post on the blog portion of that site. |
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| 1:28.4 | So you get to the Patreon site, just go to AviationNewsTalk.com slash awesome. |
| 1:33.2 | Now here's my conversation with Mike McIntyre. |
| 1:36.8 | Now let me tell you about Mike McIntyre. |
| 1:39.3 | Mike has had three passions in life, computers, law enforcement, and aviation. |
| 1:43.7 | He started writing software and |
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